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February 2, 1895 - Friedrich Jeckeln

One of the principal architects of mass killing operations in the occupied Soviet Union, Jeckeln developed and systematized methods of large-scale murder that were adopted across other SS jurisdictions. He was directly responsible for some of the largest individual massacres of Jewish civilians during the Holocaust, including the killings at Rumbula and Babi Yar. His administrative efficiency and willingness to accelerate killing quotas made him a central figure in the operational machinery of the Final Solution in the East.

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Friedrich Jeckeln

Friedrich August Jeckeln (2 February 1895 – 3 February 1946) was a German Nazi Party member, police official and SS-Obergruppenführer during the Nazi era. He served as a Higher SS and Police Leader in Germany and in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II. Jeckeln was the commander of one of the largest groups of Einsatzgruppen death squads and was personally responsible for ordering and organising the deaths of over 100,000 Jews, Romani and others designated by the Nazis as "undesirables". After the end of the war in Europe, Jeckeln was convicted of war crimes by a Soviet military tribunal in Riga and executed by hanging.

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