This Date in History: June 17

Richard Baer, SS-Sturmbannführer, born September 9, 1911 in Floss, Kommandant of the Auschwitz and Dora concentration camps, SS officer at Dachau, Neuengamme and Columbia Haus concentration camps, winner of the Iron Cross 1st Class, changed name to Karl Neumann after the war, died of a heart attack in detention in Frankfurt, West Germany on June 17, 1963.  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)

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Martin Bormann, Chief of Staff to the Deputy Führer, born June 17, 1900 in Halberstadt, Reich Leader of the Nazi Party, Hitler’s private secretary and close associate, member of the post-World War I Rossbach Freikorps, honorary SS-Obergruppenführer, winner of the Nazi Blood Order and Golden Party Badge, reported killed in action/committed suicide May 1, 1945 in Berlin,  but may have survived the war, fled to South America and died there in early 1960s of natural causes, on himself:  “I have no independent office of my own; I am, rather, a specialist for the Führer in particular areas.”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)