Hermann Schaper

SS-Hauptsturmführer Hermann Schaper (born 12 August 1911 at Strassburg im Elsass, Germany – deceased), was a German member of the NSDAP (card number 105606) and SS (No. 3484) during the Second World War. He was a Holocaust perpetrator responsible for atrocities committed by the Einsatzgruppen in Poland and the Soviet Union and was convicted after the war of numerous war crimes.
Wartime activities
Schaper joined the SS and was promoted to the rank of SS-Untersturmführer on 20 April 1935. He achieved the rank of SS-Obersturmführer on 20 April 1937. Before the 1939 invasion of Poland, Schaper worked at the SD principal offices in the Third Reich. During the German occupation of Poland Schaper served as SS-Hauptsturmführer, the captain of Kommando SS Zichenau-Schröttersburg – a Nazi Einsatzgruppe, one of five such formations created in eastern Poland and composed of 500–1000 functionaries of the SS and...