Walter Schultze

Walter Schultze was a German physician, state health official, Nazi Party politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Lecturers League in Nazi Germany between 1935 and 1944. He was also a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS), attaining the rank of SS-Gruppenführer. After the end of the Second World War, he was arrested and charged with assisting in the mass murder of hundreds of disabled people in Bavaria under the Aktion T4 program. After lengthy delays and multiple legal proceedings, he was convicted and sentenced to four years at hard labor in 1960.