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Heinz Lammerding

sentenced to death in absentia in 1953; not extradited and died in 1971 1905–1971

Heinz Lammerding served as commander of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in occupied France through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

Waffen-SSReprisal executionsCrimes against civilians

Confirmed findings

Heinz Lammerding was born on 27 August 1905 in Dortmund and commanded the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in 1944. (Source: Order of Liberation and Resistance Foundation, printed p. 25; Tulle, Lammerding order, 1953 death sentence, extradition and death; Source: French Senate, session of 29 January 1953, printed pp. 236-237; Lammerding, Tulle and extradition; Source: French Ministry of Armed Forces - Paths of Memory, section on the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in France and the Tulle and Oradour crimes)
A French institutional source attributes to him the order for the hostage executions at Tulle on 9 June 1944. (Source: Order of Liberation and Resistance Foundation, printed p. 25; Tulle, Lammerding order, 1953 death sentence, extradition and death; Source: French Senate, session of 29 January 1953, printed pp. 236-237; Lammerding, Tulle and extradition; Source: French Ministry of Armed Forces - Paths of Memory, section on the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in France and the Tulle and Oradour crimes)
In 1953 he was sentenced to death in absentia; West Germany did not extradite him and he died in Bad Tölz on 13 January 1971. (Source: Order of Liberation and Resistance Foundation, printed p. 25; Tulle, Lammerding order, 1953 death sentence, extradition and death; Source: French Senate, session of 29 January 1953, printed pp. 236-237; Lammerding, Tulle and extradition; Source: French Ministry of Armed Forces - Paths of Memory, section on the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in France and the Tulle and Oradour crimes)

Place in the chain of responsibility

Lammerding’s responsibility is individualized by the Tulle order and the French judgment. (Source: Order of Liberation and Resistance Foundation, printed p. 25; Tulle, Lammerding order, 1953 death sentence, extradition and death; Source: French Senate, session of 29 January 1953, printed pp. 236-237; Lammerding, Tulle and extradition; Source: French Ministry of Armed Forces - Paths of Memory, section on the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in France and the Tulle and Oradour crimes)

Key events and mechanisms

No victim-count ranking

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Postwar accountability

A French military tribunal sentenced Lammerding to death in absentia in 1953 for Tulle. West Germany did not extradite him; he died in 1971. (Source: Order of Liberation and Resistance Foundation, printed p. 25; Tulle, Lammerding order, 1953 death sentence, extradition and death; Source: French Senate, session of 29 January 1953, printed pp. 236-237; Lammerding, Tulle and extradition; Source: French Ministry of Armed Forces - Paths of Memory, section on the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in France and the Tulle and Oradour crimes)

Limits of the evidence

The profile does not attribute a personal order for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, which the cited sources do not establish. (Source: Order of Liberation and Resistance Foundation, printed p. 25; Tulle, Lammerding order, 1953 death sentence, extradition and death; Source: French Senate, session of 29 January 1953, printed pp. 236-237; Lammerding, Tulle and extradition; Source: French Ministry of Armed Forces - Paths of Memory, section on the 2nd SS Panzer Division Das Reich in France and the Tulle and Oradour crimes)

Sources

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