Max Josef Milde

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Max Josef Milde (born November 20, 1922 in Niederhermsdorf + April 24, 2016 in Bremen ) was a war criminal convicted in Italy, former NCO of the Wehrmacht , member of the music corps and the military police of the Parachute Panzer Division 1 Hermann Göring .

Milde was found on October 10, 2006 in absence by the military court in La Spezia of involvement in the massacre of Civitella in Val di Chiana, Cornia and San Pancrazio of more than 200 civilians in the Italian village of Civitella in Val di Chiana (near Arezzo in Tuscany ) was found guilty on June 29, 1944 and sentenced to life imprisonment and reparation for nine relatives of victims.

The action was intended to be a retaliation by Wehrmacht soldiers for two partisan attacks on June 18 and 21, 1944. On June 29, 1944, the German troops attacked the three villages under the pretext of "fighting gangs". It was not an attack on the partisans, but a murder of civilians. Only one partisan was shot in the course of the massacre. The unarmed and civilian residents were mostly men, but also women and children. In the course of the massacre, "around 100 houses [...] were destroyed by fire".

The appeal against the judgment is admissible; the proceedings are not yet concluded. Since Germany does not extradite its own citizens , the judgment could only be enforced in Germany, even if there was legal force, if Italy made a request for legal assistance to Germany and the German authorities followed it. According to German law, in contrast to Italy, the individual guilt of a defendant must be proven.

In the Italian trial M. was not specifically accused as a perpetrator by any of the witnesses. The Italian authorities apparently only became aware of M. because he gave his home address to a woman whom he was supposed to be guarding as a partisan on the day of the massacre. He is said to have told her in tears that the captain was committing crimes against the civilian population.

After the end of the Second World War he lived in Bremen and worked for the police. On December 1st, 2007, there was a rally in front of the house where Milde lived in Bremen.

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  1. ↑ a b Nazi war criminal heads the music corps of the Bremen police . In: Search for traces of August 20, 2019
  2. ^ Action against Nazi war criminals in Bremen . In: indymedia.org . Retrieved November 18, 2014.
  3. ^ Carlo Gentile: Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS in Partisan War: Italy 1943–1945 . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-76520-8 . Pp. 320-326
  4. ^ Gerhard Schreiber: German war crimes in Italy - perpetrators, victims, prosecution. Beck, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-406-39268-7 . P. 174
personal data
SURNAME Mild, Max Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Niederhermsdorf , German Empire