BENNO MARTIN. NAZI WW II
He was. A Gestapo chief and higher SS and Police leader in Nuremberg. He joined SS in 1933.Martin fought in the German Imperial Army in the First World War in which he was awarded Iron Cross first and second class. After Germany's defeat, he joined the paramilitary Freikorps in 1919.He obtained his Juris doctorate after the war ended and then joined the police department in Nuremberg in 1923, rising through the ranks to chief of police in Nuremberg and was of the rank obergruppen fuehrer.After World War II ended in Europe, he was indicted and tried for complicity in the deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz. Martin was acquitted of the charges.
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