Karl Friedrich Titho
Karl Friedrich Titho (born May 14, 1911 in Feldrom in the Lippe district in what is now North Rhine-Westphalia ; † June 18, 2001 in Horn-Bad Meinberg ) was a member of the SS and in World War II commander of the transit camps in Fossoli and Bozen .
Career in the SS
Titho joined the SS in 1932 and the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . He headed the Feldrom, Veldrom , Kempen base from March 25, 1935. In 1942, Titho was transferred to the Amersfoort transit camp , which was under Wilhelm Harster's direction. At the beginning of April Titho belonged to an SS commando that executed at least 65 Soviet prisoners of war under the direction of Erich Deppner . The shootings are said to have been ordered by Reichsführer SS and chief of the German police, Heinrich Himmler. In January 1943, Titho was the first driver to be transferred to the Herzogenbusch concentration camp. Around 12,000 prisoners were housed here by September 1943 and at least 10,500 were deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and other extermination camps .
In September 1943, Titho's superior Wilhelm Harster was transferred to the BdS Italy. He took Titho with him as a chauffeur. Before Titho was appointed head of the Fossoli di Carpi transit camp on May 15, 1944 , Harster promoted him to SS-Untersturmführer .
After the Second World War
After the war, Titho was captured by US troops in Bolzano . Until September 1946 he was imprisoned in Vught , then in Wolfsberg , under the supervision of the English War Crimes Commission for Southern Europe, and from July 1948 in Fallingbostel . Released from there, he was arrested again in 1949 and remained in custody until his trials in the Netherlands.
The British twice refused an extradition request from Italy to the American allies . A Dutch special court sentenced Titho on May 21, 1951 in Utrecht to one year in prison for mistreating prisoners in 's-Hertogenbosch . Three days later, the same court sentenced him to six years in prison for the shootings in Amersfoort in April 1942. On March 29, 1953, Titho was deported to Germany; taking into account his captivity and pre-trial detention, he had spent seven years in prison.
On June 10, 1954, a new arrest warrant was issued from Italy against Titho, Hans Haage , Michael Seifert and others for war crimes committed there. Under Article 16 of the Basic Law , no German was allowed to be extradited abroad, which is why Germany refused to extradite Titho and Haage. Since then, he lived in Horn-Bad Meinberg until his death in 2001 . The Italian state television broadcast a documentary about Titho.
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- Justice and Nazi crimes , collection of German criminal convictions for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966 Volume XIX, University Press Amsterdam (UPA) BV, Amsterdam 1978.
- Justice and Nazi crimes, documentation of Dutch criminal judgments for Nazi homicide, University Press Amsterdam (UPA) BV, Amsterdam 1978
- State Archives Detmold, dismissal order of the La Spezia military court of November 10, 1999 against Titho.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Titho, Karl Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS member, commander of the transit camps in Fossoli and Bozen |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 14, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Feldrom , Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 18, 2001 |
| Place of death | Horn-Bad Meinberg |