WERNER GOTHMANN. NAZI
He was the middle ranking SS officer and personal assistant and ADC to Heinrich Himmler SS supremo during WW II from 1940 to 45 till Himmlers death by suicide when he was arrested by allies.After Himmlers suicide in custody , he was arrested by allies. Grothmann was taken to a barracks at Lübeck, where he was extensively questioned. He denied any knowledge of Operation Reinhard. Then he was taken to an SS prison camp. Grothmann served as a prosecution witness against several SS officials between 1946 and 1948,but during the trial of Karl Wolff he denied having any knowledge of the Final Solution. After release from Allied internment, Grothmann was denazified, considered part of category III (Lesser Offenders), by a court in Freising in March 1949. in post war life he gave some interviews in which he criticised Himmlers character.He died on 2002 Feb 26
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