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Willy Lages

SS officer (1901-1971); Chief of the Sicherheitsdienst in the Netherlands

  • Fame47.8
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Lived 1901–1971, aged 70Germany
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  • Era
    1901–1971
    Aged 70
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Updated 2026-06-18

Willy Paul Franz Lages was the German chief of the Sicherheitsdienst in Amsterdam during the Second World War. From March 1941 he led the so-called Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung. As such, he was complicit in the mass deportations of 70,000 Dutch Jews to the concentration camps in Germany and occupied Poland. Lages also directly ordered multiple executions, including that of Hannie Schaft.

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