The Gas Van Killer! Letters to Walter Rauff!
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Walther Rauff was born in 1906. He was a professional naval officer until a sordid divorce ended his career prospects which led to his resignation in December 1937. Rauff then worked in Reinhard Heydrich’s the Sicherheitsdienst (SD – Security Service) and was eventually made head of the section for technical affairs (Gruppe II D) of the Reichsicherheitshauptamt, he achieved the rank of SS- Obersturmbannfuhrer.
In this role he was responsible in this role for the outfitting and supply of gas vans, which were used to mass murder Jew’s and Gypsies and Russian civilians in the Eastern territories.
In late 1942 Rauff left Berlin to lead an SD Einsatzkommando in Tunis where he persecuted and killed Jews and in September 1943 he was transferred to Italy. First he went to Rome and later he became police chief of Milan and he surrendered to the American IV army on the 30 April 1945.
After the capitulation Rauff was held in a prisoner-of-war camp near Rimini from which he escaped in December 1946, he was subsequently hidden in a monastery in Rome for eighteen months.
Like a number of former Nazi war criminals Rauff sought refuge in South America, he eventually settled in Chile.
In 1963 the Federal Republic of Germany sought his extradition from Chile but this was rejected by the Chilean Supreme Court as the charges were beyond the Chilean statute of limitations.
The late “Nazi Hunter” Simon Wiesenthal sought for years to get Rauff extradited and stand trial for his war crimes and in 1984 a warrant was issued for his arrest and extradition and was to be taken to Santiago on the 16 May 1984, but Rauff had cheated justice, as he died of heart failure and the news reached the west on the 14 May 1984. Rauff was buried in Santiago Chile
Letters to Walter Rauff Regarding Gassing Vans
The following two letters from Dr August Becker and Willi Just shed some light on the use of Gassing Vans in Poland and Russia. (*Note photo's added to enhance the text of the letters)
Letter from Dr August Becker to SS- Obersturmbannfuhrer Rauff. Report by Untersturmfuhrer Becker on the Operation of Gas Vans:
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