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Herbert Hagen
Herbert Hagen served as security official responsible for organizing deportations of Jews from France. 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.
Confirmed findings
- He belonged to the senior Security Police and Security Service apparatus in occupied France. (Source: Cologne Nazi Documentation Centre, trial notice: defendants and organization of deportations from France.)
- Institutions document his responsibility for organizing deportations of the Jewish population from France to killing centres. (Source: Mémorial de la Shoah, presentation of the Cologne proceedings and responsibility for the Holocaust in France.)
- The Cologne court convicted him of aiding the murder of seventy-three thousand deported Jews and imposed twelve years. (Source: AKENS, trial study: conviction for aiding the murder of seventy-three thousand deportees and twelve-year sentence.)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The figure of seventy-three thousand comes from the court finding on assistance in deportation and murder; it is not presented as a number personally killed by Hagen. (Source: Cologne Nazi Documentation Centre, trial notice: defendants and organization of deportations from France.; Source: Mémorial de la Shoah, presentation of the Cologne proceedings and responsibility for the Holocaust in France.; Source: AKENS, trial study: conviction for aiding the murder of seventy-three thousand deportees and twelve-year sentence.)
Key events and mechanisms
- He participated in organizing deportations of Jews from France. (Source: Cologne Nazi Documentation Centre, trial notice: defendants and organization of deportations from France.)
- The Cologne court sentenced him to twelve years in prison. (Source: Mémorial de la Shoah, presentation of the Cologne proceedings and responsibility for the Holocaust in France.)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
After an earlier French judgment in absentia, Hagen faced trial in Cologne and received twelve years for aiding the murder of seventy-three thousand deportees. (Source: AKENS, trial study: conviction for aiding the murder of seventy-three thousand deportees and twelve-year sentence.)
Limits of the evidence
The profile attributes organizational and administrative assistance established by the court, not personal execution of every killing. (Source: Cologne Nazi Documentation Centre, trial notice: defendants and organization of deportations from France.; Source: Mémorial de la Shoah, presentation of the Cologne proceedings and responsibility for the Holocaust in France.; Source: AKENS, trial study: conviction for aiding the murder of seventy-three thousand deportees and twelve-year sentence.)
Sources
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