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Hauptsturmführer Theodore Dannecker was an SS officer who oversaw the deportations of Jews from France and Italy during the war. A lawyer by profession, Dannecker joined Adolf Eichmann's staff in 1937. He was sent to Paris in 1940 and directed the deportations of French and refugee Jews. In January 1943 he went to Sofia, Bulgaria, and organized the deportation of Macedonian and Thracian Jews. From October 1943 to January 1944, Dannecker was the Jewish Commissioner in Italy. He oversaw the mass roundup and deportation of 1,035 Jews from Rome to Auschwitz on October 16, 1943. Dannecker committed suicide while interned by the Americans in December 1945. (en-US)

Fonte

Meir, Michaelis. Mussolini and the Jews: German-Italian Relations and the Jewish Question in Italy 1922-1945. Oxford: The Clarendon Press. 1978. pp. 362, 365-367, 371, 378-381

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• Personale tedesco di NSDAP/SS/DS