List of Famous people with last name Bach-zelewski

Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

First Name Erich

Last Name Bach-Zelewski

Born on March 1, 1899

Died on March 8, 1972 (aged 73)

Born in Poland, Pomeranian Voivodeship

Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski was a high-ranking SS commander of Nazi Germany. During World War II, he was in charge of the Nazi security warfare against those designated by the regime as ideological enemies and any other persons deemed to present danger to the Nazi rule or Wehrmacht's rear security in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe. It mostly involved atrocities against the civilian population. In 1944 he led the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. At the end of 1941 the forces under von dem Bach numbered 14,953 Germans, mostly officers and unteroffiziere, and 238,105 local “volunteers”

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