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Walther Bierkamp

SS officer and lawyer (1901-1945) · Germany · On the map · Lawyers · Died at 43

Walther Karl Johannes Bierkamp, also sometimes spelled Walter Bierkamp, was a German Nazi lawyer and SS-Brigadeführer.

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Awards

War Merit Cross

About this person

During the Second World War, he served as the commander of the Sicherheitspolizei or SiPo and Sicherheitsdienst or SD in occupied Belgium and Northern France and later in occupied Poland and in Baden & Württemberg. He also commanded Einsatzgruppe D, in the occupied Soviet Union. He was involved in Holocaust-related war crimes in Poland and the North Caucasus area. After the end of the war in Europe, he committed suicide.

Country
Germany
Category
Lawyers
Type
Lawyer
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1945 · aged 43