Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie, SS-Hauptsturmführer, born October 25, 1913 in Bad Godesberg, Gestapo officer, brutal interrogator of resistance fighters, sentenced to death in absentia in 1952 and 1954, captured in Bolivia in 1982, convicted in Lyon, France of murder, sentenced to life imprisonment, died in prison of cancer on September 25, 1991. Cremated; ashes disposed secretly by French authorities. He once said of the SS: “The SS soldier is a superman whose blood can be traced back four generations before being allowed to join. Any idiot can’t join the SS.” (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)
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Johann Reinhardt. SS-Oberscharführer Johann Reinhardt was born on March 16, 1918 at St. Georgen in the Steiermark region of Austria. He began his military service in the motorcycle battalion of the Das Reich in the summer of 1941 winning the Iron Cross Second Class on July 25, 1941. He subsequently served in the 8th Company of the SS Infantry Regiment 4 (motorized) Langemarck, when the second battalion of the regiment became the second battalion of the Das Reich panzer regiment. He was assigned to the Tiger company of the Das Reich effective November 15, 1942. He commanded Tiger 832 at Kharkov. At Kursk, he commanded Tiger S33 in the Third Platoon for the duration of the offensive. Reinhardt was promoted to SS-Hauptscharführer on August 1, 1943; according to one source, the same day in the fighting near the Mius River, he received his ninth wound of the war. Johann Reinhardt was killed in action on August 25, 1943 northwest of Korotych, Ukraine. He was posthumously awarded the German Cross in Gold on September 25, 1943. (Waffen-SS Tiger Crews at Kursk: The Men of SS Panzer Regiments 1, 2 & 3 in Operation Citadel, July 5-15, 1943)