Antoine Touseul

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Antoine Touseul (born June 27, 1921 in Breda , † June 26, 1991 in Aachen ) was a member of the Waffen-SS and war criminal.

Antoine Touseul was born in Breda, the Netherlands, to a French father and a Belgian mother. During World War II he volunteered as a driver in the Wehrmacht and was deployed in Poland. He was detained for six weeks following an accident accused of sabotage. According to his own information, he was able to escape and then volunteered for the Waffen SS in June 1941 . As a member of the 8th SS Cavalry Division “Florian Geyer” and the 9th SS Panzer Division “Hohenstaufen” , he was last employed in the Soviet Union as a Rottenführer . In March 1941 he was wounded and transferred to the SD branch in Doorn . There he was jointly responsible for the deaths of at least eighteen resistance fighters. He was involved in the mistreatment of prisoners and their assignment to concentration camps . Shortly before Allied troops liberated the Netherlands, he helped move prisoners to another camp where they were to be murdered.

Immediately after the liberation, he was arrested. On July 15, 1949, he was sentenced to death by the Arnhem Special Court for murder, manslaughter, assault, arson, robbery and deprivation of liberty . He was later pardoned by Queen Juliana and the sentence commuted to life imprisonment . In 1952 he succeeded together with the war criminals Herbertus Bikker (1915–2008), Klaas Carel Faber (1922–2012), Willem Polak (1915–1993), Sander Borgers (1917–1985), Willem van der Neut (1919–1983 ) and Jacob de Jonge to escape from the prison in Breda . He escaped to Germany and was arrested on November 27, 1952 for illegally crossing the border and sentenced to a fine of 10 DM. He was arrested again on November 14, 1953. He was not extradited to the Netherlands because foreign SS members had received German citizenship on the basis of a Führer decree of May 1943 . This legal opinion was shared by the post-war lawyers. As a German citizen, he could not be extradited to the Netherlands. The Aachen FDP under its then district chairman Otto Graf Lambsdorff is said to have planned a rally in 1953 to protest an extradition after Lambsdorff had met with Touseul.

Touseul then lived in the Haaren district of Aachen and worked as an employee at a gas station. He remained unmarried and had little contact with his neighbors. It is not known whether he was friends with the war criminal Heinrich Boere , who lived nearby . He died a day before his 70th birthday and was buried in hair.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Arnold Karskens : Gevonden: Antoine Touseul ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , October 30, 2009 on arnoldkarskens.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.arnoldkarskens.com
  2. ↑ Arnold Karskens: Gezochte oorlogsmisdadiger Willem Polak overleden on tpo.nl (ThePostOnline)
  3. ^ Hans J. Schlochauer, Herbert Krüger, Herman Mosler, Ulrich Scheuner: Aachener Kongress - Hussar Fall , Walter de Gruyter, 1960, ISBN 978-3-11-001030-5 , pp. 242/243
  4. ↑ Der Spiegel : Chairwoman of the Auschwitz Committee calls for Count Lambsdorff's release , August 21, 1999
personal data
SURNAME Touseul, Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German member of the Waffen SS
DATE OF BIRTH June 27, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Breda
DATE OF DEATH June 26, 1991
Place of death Aachen