Hanns Albin Rauter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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German general
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Place of Birth: Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria
About Hanns Albin Rauter
- Johann Baptist Albin Rauter (4 February 1895 – 24 March 1949) was a high-ranking Austrian-born SS functionary and war criminal during the Nazi era.
- He was the highest SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands and therefore the leading security and police officer there during the period of 1940–1945.
- Rauter reported directly to the Nazi SS chief, Heinrich Himmler, and also to the Nazi governor of the Netherlands, Arthur Seyss-Inquart.
- After World War II, he was convicted in the Netherlands of crimes against humanity and executed by firing squad.
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