Walter Rauff
SS commander in Nazi Germany
Died when: 77 years 330 days (934 months)Star Sign: Gemini
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Walter (Walther) Rauff (19 June 1906 – 14 May 1984) was a mid-ranking SS commander in Nazi Germany.From January 1938, he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the Security Service (Sicherheitsdienst or SD), later in the Reich Security Main Office.
He worked for the Federal Intelligence Service of West Germany (Bundesnachrichtendienst) between 1958 and 1962, and was subsequently employed by the Mossad, the Israeli secret service.
His funeral in Santiago, Chile, was attended by several former Nazis.Rauff is thought to have been responsible for nearly 100,000 deaths during World War II.
He was instrumental in the implementation of the Nazis' genocide by mobile gas chamber.His victims included Communists, Jews, Roma and people with disabilities.
He was arrested in 1945, but subsequently escaped and was never brought to trial.In the late 1970s and the 1980s, he was arguably the most wanted Nazi fugitive still alive.