Stabsführer Lauterbacher / Nürnberger Prozess

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Ich meine irgendwo gelesen zu haben, dass Lauterbacher nach Saudi Arabien geflohen ist um einer Strafe zu entkommen. Stimmt das?
 
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No, not quite. He did spend some years in North Africa in the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s but this was long after the period during which he was on the run.

Here's a quick run-down on what happened to him from 1945 until the 1950s:

He ended the war as Gauleiter (he had been promoted from Stabsführer der HJ to become vice-Gauleiter of Süd-Hannover-Braunschweig in 1940) and was arrested in Mauterndorf (Austria) in 1945.

After a series of moves he ended up at Kensington Park, London where he was interrogated before being taken to Nürnberg where he gave testimony in defence of Schirach and Sauckel.

From London he was taken to Hannover to face charges involving the alleged poisoning of 986 prisoners of war during his tenure as Gauleiter. He was found innocent but was not released and instead was taken first to an internment camp in Fallingbostel followed by a further move to Sandbostel before being taken to Dachau to face charges related to the execution of a downed bomber crew whose deaths he was alleged to have ordered. He was acquitted of that charge and was returned to Sandbostel where he was informed that he was to attend a denazification hearing at a German court.

Before proceedings commenced he decided to escape from Sandbostel and an attempt in February 1947 was successful and he went into hiding.

After a lengthy stay in various places in northern Germany he moved south into Italy where he eventually went into business with his brother who had a pharmaceutical company 'LABORA' in Munich.

This continued for some time until an article was published about him in the communist newspaper 'Unita'. He was arrested and taken to the internment camp 'La Frachette' where he heard that both the French and British authorities wanted to talk to him.

Facing prolonged imprisonment he again made a successful escape attempt and moved from Rome to Austria and then on to Germany where he hoped to legally obtain German papers. There is a gap here but he mentions that the denazification process had been ended by law and that he had a 'pardon in his pocket'. This would be 1951 then because the denazification courts ceased to operate from July of that year.

Source: Erlebt und Mitgestaltet - Hartmann Lauterbacher 1984
 
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