Gerhard Flesch
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Gerhard Friedrich Ernst Flesch (1909 - 1948), Oberregierungsrat and SS-Obersturmbannführer. He was born on 8th October, 1909, in Poznan. He became a member of NSDAP in 1933. In 1934, he took his degree in law and was in 1936 appointed by Reinhard Heydrich to the Gestapo where he was in control of the religious sects of Germany. In 1938, he took part in the German march into the Sudetenland, and in 1939, in the annexation of Bohemia and Moravia, and was later appointed political adviser to Gauleiter Sauckel in Thuringia. After the outbreak of the war in September, 1939, he became leader of an Einsatzkommando in Poznan. In 1940, he joined an SS Totenkopf-division in their march into France.
He had a position as Regierungsrat and SS-Sturmbannführer when he in april in 1940 was sent to Norway. His first job in norway was Kommandeur der Sipo und des SD in Bergen. The 11. October 1941, he was appointed Kommandeur der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD, in Trondheim. As Kommandeur of the district, he was also chief of Falstad concentration camp outside Trondheim and the prisons in Trondheim. He was given the rank of Obersturmbannführer and received the title of Oberregierungsrat. His immediate superior was Heinrich Fehlis. On 8. May in 1945 he fled from Trondheim with a goldbar in his luggage. He was caught and sent back with a police escorte on the train and made an unsuccessful attempt to escape.
He was known for being a notorious torturer, and ordered the execution of many members of the Norwegian resistance movement without any trial. After WWII, in 1946, he was tried and sentenced, for many cases of torture and murder, to execution by firing squad. The sentence was carried out at midnight at Kristiansten festning on the 28th of February in 1948. Right before the order was given to fire, Gerhard Flesch shouted loudly "Heil Hitler".
Quotes
Aber Sie lassen doch keine kranken Juden liegen. Draussen ein Grab graben und alles ist in Ordnung. (Sick Jews lying about ! There is only one thing to do, dig a grave and everything will be right.)
External links
Trial of Gerhard Friedrich Ernst Flesch (http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/flesch.htm)