Hitler’s henchmen killed for promotions and recognition
There is no remorse in Waldemar Klingelhรถfer's eyes.
A picture from theย "Einsatzgruppen trial" shows the SS-Sturmbannfรผhrer or "assault unit leader" staring calmly into the camera.ย His checkered shirt is buttoned all the way up; his brows are furrowed, but his face shows no emotion.
Waldemar Klingelhรถfer at the Einsatzgruppen trial in Nuremberg
The photograph would have been taken during the Nuremberg trials in 1947 or 1948, just before Klingelhรถfer was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity and membership in a criminal organization.
From opera singer to killer for the Nazisย
Before he joined Hitler's killing forces, Klingelhรถfer was an opera singer. In 1935, he left the Kassel state theater to take over the Cultural Department of the SD, the Nazis' intelligence agency led dir...