SS-Obergruppenführer Erich Julius
Eberhard von Bach-Zelewski (1899 -
1972).
Three of his sisters married Jews, and
his uncle in 1891 had commanded a troop
of
heavily armed German soldiers in German
East Africa, which was annihilated in
the
battle of Rugarto. Being militarily
outwitted by African blacks armed with
spears
against a well armed force was
considered shameful, and the family was
disgraced.
Despite freely admitting Holocausting
the Jews, he was never tried for it,
although he was
imprisoned in 1958 for murdering
communists and other Nazis. He died in
prison 14 years
later. Also he fraudulently claimed to
have assisted Herman Goering in his
suicide.
Bach-Zelewski did appear as a witness at
the main Nuremberg trial, where he
stated:,
... a speech made by Heinrich Himmler at Weselsburg at the beginning of 1941, prior to the campaign against Russia, when he spoke of the purpose of the Russian campaign, which was, he said, to decimate the Slav population by 30 million ...
Himmler had actually said that the war
against Russia was certain to result in millions
of
dead. But Bach-Zelewski lies caused
Herman Goering to denounce him
to his face in
the courtroom for the falsity of his
testimony, calling him a "schweinehund"
(pig dog).
