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Josef Meisinger
Josef Meisinger served as commander of the Security Police and SD in the Warsaw district. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Warsaw, the Warsaw district and Palmiry 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
- Meisinger served as commander of the Security Police and SD in the Warsaw district within the Security Police, SD and Gestapo apparatus.
- The documented scope of his command responsibility includes the AB Action in the Warsaw district, police terror and the executions at Palmiry.
- He was extradited to Poland, sentenced to death in the Warsaw trial and executed in 1947.
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile places Meisinger between the district administration and the Security Police apparatus that implemented the AB Action. It does not assign to him personally every execution or every crime committed by the police in the Warsaw district.
Key events and mechanisms
- the AB Action in the Warsaw district
- the executions at Palmiry
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
Meisinger was extradited to Poland, sentenced to death in the Warsaw trial and executed in 1947.
Limits of the evidence
The acts covered by the judgment must be distinguished precisely from the wider official responsibility described in the sources.
Sources
The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.