Horrific Execution of German SS officer Helmut Kampfe and soldiers resulted Mass Massacre of french.
Helmut Kämpfe was Nazi Germany Waffen-SS Major. He was born in Jena, Thüringen, German Empire. He joined the German army (Heer) in 1934, where he rose to the rank of lieutenant. In 1939 he joined the SS and was transferred to the Waffen-SS. Nazi Germany launched an invasion of the Soviet Union (Eastern Front), codenamed Operation Barbarossa. Kämpfe was sent on the Eastern Front in Russia, and
was the commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion, 4th SS-Panzergrenadier Der Führer Regiment of the Das Reich Division. Kämpfe was awarded the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross for his bravery and exemplary leadership during the Zhitomir–Berdichev Offensive in the winter of 1943 – 44. The Maquis were rural guerrilla bands of French Resistance fighters, called maquisards, killed Dozens of German soldiers, during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. Kämpfe was captured and executed by a Maquis group. Aclose personal friend of Kämpfe, Adolf Diekmann in revenge killed 190 Frenchmen, 247 women and 205 children in the village of Oradour-sur-Glane. the ruins of the old Oradour-sur-Glane village be maintained as a permanent memorial and museum.
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Thank you, very clear and interesting and, of course, terrible. I visited Oradour-sur-Glane.quite recently and it's a truly moving experience.
This event happened a few days after the massacres of hundreds of civilians by the SS in Oradour sur glane and Tulle. The resistance is constantly on the move, they have no infrastructure to keep prisoners. If they release the German soldiers, the German troops will return, hunt them down and take revenge on the surrounding civilians. It is a crime from the legal point of view, but the circumstances of this war did not give the resistants any other choice.