Waldemar Heger

Waldemar Theodor Heger (also Valdemar or Willibald Heger , actually Vlado Heger ; * May 31, 1919 in Osijek , Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes ; † July 12, 2007 in Tillmitsch , Austria ) was a member of the National Socialist squadron of the German team , an armed formation of the Yugoslav Germans during the Second World War . As such, Heger was the deputy commandant of his brother Karl Heger of the Loborgrad concentration camp set up for women and children in the fascist Independent State of Croatia (NDH). The Loborgrad concentration camp housed mainly Serb women and Jews , including pregnant women, as well as their children and infants.

literature

• Carl Bethke : (Not) a common language? Aspects of the history of German-Jewish relationships in Slavonia, 1900–1945 - Chapter 5.6: Ethnic Germans as security guards in the concentration camp: The women and children concentration camp Loborgrad in Croatia (1941–1942) , Lit Verlag , 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11754-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wolfgang Benz , Barbara Distel (ed.): The place of terror . History of the National Socialist Concentration Camps. Volume 9: Labor education camps, ghettos, youth protection camps, police detention camps, special camps, gypsy camps, forced labor camps. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-57238-8 , p. 319.
2. ↑ Carl Bethke : (Not) a common language? Aspects of the history of German-Jewish relationships in Slavonia, 1900–1945 - Volksdeutsche as guards in the concentration camp: The women and children concentration camp Loborgrad in Croatia (1941–1942) , p. 307, Lit Verlag , 2013, ISBN 978-3-643-11754-0 .