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Kurt Meyer
Kurt Meyer served as Waffen-SS commander. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Normandy, 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
- Kurt Meyer: 1910-12-23–1961-12-23. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, cited passage; Source: Government of Canada Publications, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage)
- As a Waffen-SS commander, he incited his troops to deny quarter and bore command responsibility for Canadian prisoner-of-war shootings at his headquarters, but the court did not find that he had ordered the executions. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, cited passage; Source: Government of Canada Publications, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage)
- In 1945 he was sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released on 1954-09-07. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, cited passage; Source: Government of Canada Publications, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile separates the documented office and individual conduct from the wider crimes of the institution or subordinate formation. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, cited passage; Source: Government of Canada Publications, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage)
Key events and mechanisms
- As a Waffen-SS commander, he incited his troops to deny quarter and bore command responsibility for Canadian prisoner-of-war shootings at his headquarters, but the court did not find that he had ordered the executions. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, cited passage; Source: Government of Canada Publications, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage)
- In 1945 he was sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released on 1954-09-07. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, cited passage; Source: Government of Canada Publications, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage)
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
In 1945 he was sentenced to death, the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, and he was released on 1954-09-07. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, cited passage; Source: Government of Canada Publications, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage)
Limits of the evidence
Only claims tied to the cited evidence are included. No individual victim total or additional order is attributed without separate proof. No portrait was selected because rights were not verified. (Source: Library of Congress, cited passage; Source: Veterans Affairs Canada, cited passage; Source: Government of Canada Publications, cited passage; Source: Deutsche Biographie, cited passage)
Sources
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