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词条 Karl Schümers
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  1. War-time atrocities

  2. Commands

     References  Further reading 

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Karl Schümers (17 October 1905 – 16 August 1944) was a high-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS and Ordnungspolizei (police) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He commanded the SS Polizei Division in July – August 1944. He was directly or indirectly involved in many of the major atrocities committed in Greece during 1944. Killed by a landmine on 16 August 1944.

He was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross on 30 September, 1942.

War-time atrocities

  • On 5 April 1944, Karl Schümers commanded the 7th unit of the 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division[1] to the execution of 277 unarmed women, children and elders in the village of Kleisoura in Greece as a retaliation of the killing of 3 German soldiers.[2] In the official investigations by his command hierarchy for the massacre he testified that his soldiers had to kill them all because guerrilla forces were hiding in the village, and was acquitted, while it was proven after the war that his testimony was false.[2]{{rp|587}}
  • On 24 April his 7th unit committed the Pyrgoi massacre where 368 children were slaughtered.[3]
  • Men from the same 7th unit, under the command of Hans Zampel and Fritz Lautenbach committed the Distomo massacre, on 10 June, where 218 civilians were brutally murdered for retaliation, one of the cruelest atrocities of WW II; no one was ever tried for this war crime.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}
  • On 17 June 1944 Karl Schümers commanded the execution of 28 civilians and total destruction of Ipati, and the next day, the burning down of Sperchiada and the killing of 35 civilians.[4]
  • After he was assigned the command of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division, on 22 July 1944,[1] the 8th unit of his forces took part in the operation Kreuzotter (5-31 August 1944) in a failed attempt to eradicate ELAS bases from the mountains of central Greece, {{illm|Roumeli, Greece|el|Roumeli}}, that resulted, among others, in the killing of approximately 170 civilians and the partial or complete destruction of dozens of villages and cities.[4][5]

He was killed on 16 August 1944 when his car drove over a landmine planted by Greek resistance, in Arta, Greece.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Commands

  • II.Battalion, 7th SS Polizei Panzer Grenadier Regiment
  • 7th SS Panzer Grenadier Regiment
  • 4th SS Polizei Panzer Grenadier Division

References

1. ^1 {{cite web | website=www.axishistory.com | title=4. SS-Polizei-Panzergrenadier-Division | url=http://www.axishistory.com/axis-nations/119-germany-waffen-ss/germany-waffen-ss-divisions/1262-4-ss-polizei-panzergrenadier-division | access-date=28 Dec 2016}}
2. ^1 {{cite| type=phd | first=Stratos | last=Dordanas | title=Αντιποινα των Γερμανικων Αρχων Κατοχης στη Μακεδονία 1941-1944 | trans-title=Retaliations of the German occupation authorities in Macedonia 1941-1944|year=2002 | publisher=Αριστοτέλιο Πανεπιστημιο Θεσσαλονίκης | url=http://oladeka.com/2016/04/5-%CE%B1%CF%80%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%BB%CE%AF%CE%BF%CF%85-1944-%CE%B7-%CE%BA%CE%B1%CF%84%CE%B1%CF%83%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%86%CE%AE-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%BA%CE%BB%CE%B5%CE%B9%CF%83%CE%BF%CF%8D%CF%81%CE%B1/ | language=Greek | access-date=27 Dec 2016}}
3. ^{{cite book | first=Kostas | last=Φωτιάδης | first2=Stratos | last2=Dordanas | first3=Iakovos | last3=Michailidis | title=Αθώα θύματα στο Βέρμιο: οι Πύργοι και το Μεσόβουνο στην Κατοχή (1941-1944) | trans-title= Innocent victims on mountain Vermio: The Pyrgi and Mesovouno villages during the German occupation |publisher=Εκδοτικός Οίκος αδελφών Κυριακίδη Α.Ε | place=Thessaloniki | date=25 Oct 2014 | isbn=978-960-602-052-0 }}
4. ^1 {{cite web | first=Chronis | last=Barsos | title=5-31 Αυγούστου 1944: Η μεγάλη γερμανική εκκαθαριστική επιχείρηση «Kreuzotter» (Έχιδνα) στην κεντρική Ρούμελη | trans-title=5-31 August 1944: The extensive German extermination operation «Kreuzotter» (viper) in Central Roumeli | date=14 Aug 2015 | website=www.mag24.gr | language=Greek | url=http://www.mag24.gr/5-31-avgoustou-1944-megali-germaniki-ekkatharistiki-epichirisi-kreuzotter-echidna-stin-kentriki-roumeli/ | access-date=28 Dec 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151006174626/http://www.mag24.gr/5-31-avgoustou-1944-megali-germaniki-ekkatharistiki-epichirisi-kreuzotter-echidna-stin-kentriki-roumeli/ | archive-date=6 Oct 2015}}
5. ^{{cite book | first=Robert | last=Perdue | title=Behind the Lines in Greece: The Story of OSS Operational Group II | date=2 Apr 2010 | publisher=AuthorHouse | place=Greece | isbn=9781449067892 | pages=222 | url=https://books.google.gr/books?id=RA-7DAcCXHsC&pg=PA52&lpg=PA52&dq=operation+kreuzotter+greece&source=bl&ots=nL8-oMXxbK&sig=Hq87oEusb6pnHDQX6Fy2Jn8G97c&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=operation%20kreuzotter%20greece&f=false | access-date=2 Jan 2017 }}

Further reading

{{Refbegin}}
  • {{Cite book

|last=Fellgiebel
|first=Walther-Peer
|authorlink=Walther-Peer Fellgiebel
|year=2000
|origyear=1986
|title=Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 — Die Inhaber der höchsten Auszeichnung des Zweiten Weltkrieges aller Wehrmachtteile
|trans-title=The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945 — The Owners of the Highest Award of the Second World War of all Wehrmacht Branches
|language=German
|location=Friedberg, Germany
|publisher=Podzun-Pallas
|isbn=978-3-7909-0284-6
}}
  • {{Cite book

|last=Mitcham
|first=Samuel W
|year=2007
|title=Retreat to the Reich : the German defeat in France, 1944
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qBrjZ8-VtEMC&pg=PP1
|location=Mechanicsburg, PA
|publisher=Stackpole Books
|isbn=978-0-8117-3384-7
}}{{Refend}}{{Subject bar
| portal1=Biography
| portal2=Military of Germany
| portal3=World War II
}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Schuemers, Karl}}{{Germany-mil-bio-stub}}

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