- Joined
- Dec 21, 2019
- Messages
- 4,325
- Reaction score
- 1,388
- Location
- Spain
- Gender
- Male
- Political Leaning
- Socialist
Should a Third Reich occupation official responsible for reviewing Dutch applications to be spared from being sent to death camps be honored as a hero because he sent less than half petitions to be killed, a number that amounted to thousands? The residents of Osnabrück in northwest Germany are considering naming a museum to the Final Solution after Hans Georg Calmeyer, a native of the city, who spent the war years in the safety of a Nazi office in occupied Holland, using his pen to spare some Jews while condemning others.
Hero or Nazi war criminal? ′Good German′ Hans Calmeyer′s legacy debated | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 18.07.2020
There are some who say nobody is perfect but it mystifies me that a man who asked for the job of sending some Jews to their deaths can be considered by present-day Germans in Osnabrück as one of the millions of 'Good Germans'. Some are even comparing him to Oscar Schindler who saved many Jews from extermination by giving them jobs in his munitions factory near Krakau, occupied Poland.
Georg Calmeyer had a comfortable job in The Hague during WWII.
Hero or Nazi war criminal? ′Good German′ Hans Calmeyer′s legacy debated | Germany| News and in-depth reporting from Berlin and beyond | DW | 18.07.2020
There are some who say nobody is perfect but it mystifies me that a man who asked for the job of sending some Jews to their deaths can be considered by present-day Germans in Osnabrück as one of the millions of 'Good Germans'. Some are even comparing him to Oscar Schindler who saved many Jews from extermination by giving them jobs in his munitions factory near Krakau, occupied Poland.

Georg Calmeyer had a comfortable job in The Hague during WWII.