biography
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Rauter, Hanns A (Johann Baptist Albin)
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pronunciation:
[rowter]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1895–1949)
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| biography:
| Austrian National Socialist and SS leader, born in Klagenfurt, S Austria. He served in World War 1 in the Austro-Hungarian army and afterwards in the Freikorps; in 1933 he joined the SS. During World War 2 he was commissioner-general for public security in the German-occupied Netherlands, where he reported directly to Himmler and as such was held responsible for German atrocities. In 1944, after the Battle of Arnhem, he was given the command of the Maas front as general in the Waffen-SS. He was severely wounded in an attack by the resistance on a cafe at Woeste Hoeve in the Veluwe (near Arnhem). In reprisals hundreds of Dutch people were shot. Rauter was condemned to death in 1948 and executed the next year. |
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