Hermann Krumey

Identifier
000573
Dates
1905-1981
Type of Entity
Person

History

German SS officer. He had contact with Adolf Eichmann and his Jewish affairs department of the Reich Security Main Office during the resettlement of the Warthe District. After the German occupation of Hungary he arrived in Budapest as a member of Eichmann’s Sondereinsatzkommando. He worked with Eichmann on the mass deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz. He was arrested in Italy in 1945, but thanks for statement of Rezső Kasztner he was not prosecuted. Later he was sentenced to imprisonment.