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Walter Buch

In July 1949 he was classified as a main offender; the five-year labour-camp term was reduced to three and a half years and deemed served. 1883–1949

Walter Buch served as supreme party judge and Reichsleiter. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in German Reich through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.

Anti-Jewish violenceRepressive justiceRacial law

Confirmed findings

Walter Buch was born in Bruchsal on 24 October 1883 and died by suicide in Lake Ammer on 12 September 1949. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
He headed the Nazi Party’s Supreme Party Court and held the rank of Reichsleiter. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)
On 13 February 1939 he forwarded to Göring a party-court report on the violence of 9–10 November 1938; it described lenient party sanctions and petitions to quash ordinary criminal proceedings. (Source: cited record)
In July 1949 the Munich appeal chamber classified him as a main offender, reduced the five-year labour-camp term to three and a half years, and deemed it served. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

Place in the chain of responsibility

The documented responsibility concerns his leadership of the party judiciary and his forwarding of a report that shielded perpetrators of anti-Jewish violence; the cited sources do not show that Buch ordered the pogrom. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

Key events and mechanisms

On 13 February 1939 he forwarded to Göring the Supreme Party Court report on proceedings after the violence of 9–10 November 1938. (Source: cited record)
In July 1949 the denazification appeal classified him as a main offender. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

No victim-count ranking

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 July 1949 the labour-camp term was reduced to three and a half years and deemed served; he died by suicide on 12 September 1949. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

Limits of the evidence

The profile does not attribute an order to launch the pogrom or individual killings to Buch without a source finding. The photograph in the detention report dated 22 June 1945 is marked on Wikimedia Commons as public domain, as a work of the U.S. Government. (Source: cited record; Source: cited record; Source: cited record)

Sources

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