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Waldemar Klingelhöfer
Waldemar Klingelhöfer served as Commander of Vorkommando Moskau and a staff officer of Einsatzgruppe B.. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Smolensk and German-occupied Soviet territory 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
- Born in Moscow on 4 April 1900, Klingelhöfer was an SD officer serving with Einsatzgruppe B. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The tribunal relied in part on his own statement that he personally shot thirty Jews who had left a ghetto without permission. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- He received a death sentence on 10 April 1948; it was commuted to life on 31 January 1951, and he was paroled on 12 December 1956. He died in Villingen on 18 January 1977. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile does not attribute the entire Einsatzgruppe B death toll to Klingelhöfer; it separates his admitted act from his command role. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1941 he commanded Vorkommando Moskau within Einsatzgruppe B. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- In 1948 the Einsatzgruppen Trial established his command responsibility and direct participation in an execution. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
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
He received a death sentence on 10 April 1948; it was commuted to life on 31 January 1951, and he was paroled on 12 December 1956. He died in Villingen on 18 January 1977. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No safely licensed portrait has been identified for publication; the profile remains without an image pending a separate rights review. The precise victim total of his unit is not established here. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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