Walter Rauff (June 19, 1906 – May 14, 1984) was an SS officer in Nazi Germany, attaining the grade of Colonel (Standartenführer) in June 1944. From January 1938 he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Sicherheitsdienst or SD, the SS security service, later in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt or RSHA, the Reich Security Main Office, a department created by Himmler in 1939 grouping the Gestapo, SD and Kripo, the criminal police. Between 1958 and 1962 he worked for the Bundesnachrichtendienst, West Germany's intelligence service. His funeral in Santiago, Chile was attended by hundreds of old Nazis.
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19 June 1906 Köthen, Germany
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Died |
14 May 1984 (aged 77)
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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