Heinz Barth

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Heinz Barth (born October 15, 1920 in Gransee ; † August 6, 2007 ibid) was a war criminal and Obersturmführer of the Waffen SS and platoon leader in the SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment 4 "Der Führer" as part of the 2nd SS Panzer Division "The Empire" . Barth was the only SS member who was accused and convicted of the Oradour massacre in Germany .

Life

Barth joined the NSDAP in 1939 ( membership number 7844901) and was an SD member in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia from 1940 to 1942 . There he was involved in operations in which 92 Czechs were murdered. On February 10, 1943 he became a member of the SS (membership number 458037) and deployed on the Eastern Front, then in France. After his involvement in the Oradour massacre on June 10, 1944, he lost a leg and a stiff shoulder during combat operations in Normandy in August 1944. After his return from captivity in 1946, he worked in Gransee in the consumer cooperative .

Because of his involvement in the murder of 642 residents of Oradour-sur-Glane in 1944, he was sentenced to death in absentia in Bordeaux on February 12, 1953 .

On July 14, 1981, he was arrested in the GDR . The main hearing before the Berlin District Court began on May 25, 1983. Heinz Barth was sentenced on June 7, 1983 to life imprisonment. Two GDR citizens who had been involved as subordinates of Barth in Oradour were not charged by the GDR public prosecutor's office because during the interrogations by the main department IX / 11 of the MfS there were no suspicions against them that could have been proven.

Among other things, Barth was imprisoned in the central remand prison of the Stasi in Berlin-Hohenschönhausen . In September 1997, Barth was released from prison because of his poor health. In 2000, Barth lost a lawsuit for continued payment of his war invalids supplementary pension, which he had received since German reunification , because the Federal Pension Act had been amended in 1998 . Ten years after his release from prison, he died of cancer.

According to the Czech historian Eduard Stehlík, Barth was also used in the Ležáky massacre .

literature

  • Henry Leide: Nazi Criminal and State Security. The secret past politics of the GDR. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2006, ISBN 3-525-35018-X , The Heinz Barth case, pp. 131–142.
  • Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex. The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2004, ISBN 3-89244-693-8 .
  • Peter Przybylski, Horst Busse: Murderer of Oradour. Military publishing house of the GDR, Berlin 1984, DNB 850161746 .
  • Lea Rosh , Günther Schwarberg: The last day of Oradour. Steidl, Göttingen 1992, 1994, 1997, ISBN 3-88243-092-3 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Judgment of June 7, 1983.
  2. ↑ allegedly he had destroyed his personal documents; Leide, p. 135.
  3. ↑ Leide, p. 139.
  4. ↑ BSTtU ZUV 66, GA Volume 12.Sheet 09, Appendix Appendix IV, No. 8
  5. ↑ On the failures of criminal prosecution in the Federal Republic see lit. Bernhard Brunner and the article Oradour-sur-Glane .
  6. ↑ War criminal is allowed to keep victim's pension: Heinz Barth, the "Murderer of Oradour", won a partial victory before the social court . In: Berliner Zeitung , June 8, 2000. “With the judgment, the court only partially complied with the applications of Barth's lawyer. He had also called for the war victim's pension to be continued. "
  7. ↑ War criminal Barth died. In: Der Tagesspiegel . August 14, 2007.
  8. Jump up ↑ Osobně se také účastnil vraždění obyvatel obce Ležáky v červnu 1942. "Dobrovolně se hlásil k bezpečnostní policii, jejíž jednotky fungovaly jako popravčí čstetykhistoric voices," řekl Eduardicki Stetyu. Updates.centrum
personal data
SURNAME Barth, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Obersturmführer (Waffen-SS)
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Gransee
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 2007
Place of death Gransee