Name Max Wielen | Role Police officer | |
Max Ernst Gustav Friedrich Wielen (born 3 March 1883) was the Kripo and Gestapo police chief at Breslau. He held the rank of Obergruppenführer. After the war, he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the War Trials Commission but served only a few years in prison and was released 24 October 1952. [1].
Wielen is significant in that he was directly implicated in the Stalag Luft III murders, in which members of the RAF who were involved in the "Great Escape" were killed.
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