Franz Six joined the NSDAP party in 1930 and the SA (the precursor to the SS) two years later where he acted as the student organizer until he joined the SD in 1935.

Impressed by Six’s work, Reinhard Heydrich (the Blond Beast) appointed him s head of Amt VII, Written Records of the RSHA that dealt with ideological tasks such as the creation of anti-semitic and anti-masonic propaganda, and monitoring the Nazi indoctrination of the public.

During the planning stages of Operation Sea Lion (the German invasion of Great Britain), Six was charged with the responsibility of eliminating all anti-Nazi elements within Great Britain following the invasion. This responsibility included the detention and elimination of some 2,300 individuals immediately after the occupation of GB. To give you an idea of who made up that number, these people included the likes of Winston Chuchill and other members of the Cabinet, philosopher Bertrand Russell, and various members of exiled governments.

Not only that, but Six planned out six Einsatzgruppen squads to be located in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and either Edinburgh or Glasgow. These death squads were to eliminate the expected civilian resistance and the Jews of the island.

When Operation Sea Lion was abandoned, Six’s responsibility turned to the East where he was put in charge of a unit Einsatzgruppe B in the USSR. During his stint at this position, his Kommando reported to have liquidated 144 persons which included intellectual Jews and those who had tried to create unrest in the Smolensk ghetto. For his mens’ accomplishment, Heinrich Himmler promoted Six.

At the end of the war, Six stood trial in Nuremberg during the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1948. The tribunal was unable to link him directly to any of the atrocities but still sentenced him to 20 years in prison. He only served 10, and was released on 30 September 1952.

After his release, Franz Six served as an advertising executive Porsche.

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Major General Dahlquist of the US Army and Goering,1945

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Bergen-Belsen’s Head of Labor Women’s unit, Irma Grese (known as the Beatuiful Beast), and the camp commander Hauptsturmführer SS Josef Kramer under British guard in the prison yard before their trial somewhere in Celle, Germany.

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The archive folder photos of former Reichsmarschall and Luftwaffe chief Hermann Göring as in the Central Registry of War Criminals and Security Suspects in Paris.

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Irma Grese, the “Mass Murderess” of Bergen-Belsen, during the Belsen Trial.

As the Allies argued in their case—don’t let her appearance deceive you, Irma Grese was a woman with a streak of cruelty wider than the state of Texas.

According to inmate testimony, Grese was fond of whipping inmates and was said to never have been without her boots, whip, or pistol at anytime. Witnesses say that Grese was inclined not only to go for the weak and sickly inmates, but purposely targeted inmates that she believed had “retained vestiges of their former beauty”. Fond of physical and emotional torture, Grese hand selected those for the gas chamber while at Bergen-Belsen as the women warden, and was said to have delighted in shooting prisoners in cold blood.

Her trial took 53 days, and when the verdict was read she was found guilty.

Irma Grese was executed on 13 December 1946 at 22 years of age, making her the youngest woman to die judicially under British law in the 20th century.

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