Sander Borgers

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Sander Borgers (born September 13, 1917 in Den Hulst , † 1985 in Haren ) was a Dutch member of the Waffen SS and war criminal.

Life

Sander Borgers was born in the Dutch hamlet of Den Hulst in what was then the municipality of Nieuwleusen as the son of a farmer. In 1932 the family had to give up the farm for economic reasons and they moved to the Twente area , where the father worked in the textile industry. Sander Borgers and his brother Johan (January 20, 1922 - December 12, 1941) became a member of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands as early as 1940, and the brothers volunteered for the Waffen SS in 1941 . You were involved in the war in the Balkans, where Johan died in late 1941. Sander Borger was wounded several times and came back to the front after hospital stays. In 1943 he was dismissed from the service and helped his father with his horse trade until 1944 . After joining the SS, he married in Enschede .

At the same time he was called up to the Silbertanne special command led by Henk Feldmeijer , where he was responsible for several murders of Dutch resistance sympathizers. Shortly before the liberation of the Netherlands by Allied troops, he fled to Germany and then worked on a farm in the Leer area . His wife settled in 1947 he divorced and he lived with a new partner without marrying again. He was searched for in the Netherlands and sentenced to death in absentia. In 1949 he was arrested in Germany and extradited to his home country. In a retrial, he was sentenced again, this time to life imprisonment with the deprivation of civil rights . After the first appeal , a sentence of twelve years was set on December 27, 1950, which was revised back to life imprisonment in the second appeal with a judgment of January 31, 1951. He was detained in the maximum security prison in Breda . On December 26, 1952 he succeeded together with the war criminals Herbertus Bikker (1915–2008), Klaas Carel Faber (1922–2012), Willem Polak (1915–1993), Antoine Touseul (1921–1991), Willem van der Neut (1919–1983) and Jacob de Jonge to escape prison. He fled to Germany and was arrested on November 27, 1952 for illegally crossing the border and sentenced to a fine of 10 DM. In 1956 he was arrested again. He was not extradited to the Netherlands because foreign SS members had received German citizenship on the basis of a “ Führer decree ” from May 1943 . This legal opinion was shared by the post-war lawyers. As a German citizen, he could not be extradited to the Netherlands.

Borgers lived in Germany until his death.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Anton Heijmerikx: De meest gezochte nazi misdadigers , December 2, 2012 on heijmerikx.nl
  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
personal data
SURNAME Borgers, Sander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch member of the Waffen SS and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH The Hulst
DATE OF DEATH 1985
Place of death Haren