Dieter Schenk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dieter Schenk

German writer

Date of Birth: 14-Mar-1937

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Profession: writer, historian of the modern age

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Dieter Schenk

  • Dieter Schenk (born March 14, 1937) is a German author, former high police officer of the Bundeskriminalamt, and a member of Amnesty International.
  • He is best known for his work and activism which led the German court in Lübeck to overturn a 1939 verdict from World War II, regarding the defenders of the Polish Post Office in Danzig (Gdansk), as well as his books on the widespread influence of ex-Nazis in post World War II Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA). Schenk is a former Kriminaldirektor of Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt), located in Wiesbaden, where he was the agency's contact with Interpol.
  • He left the agency in 1989 because of what he describes as "the ignorance of the BKA concerning the violation of human rights in torturing regimes".

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