Herbert Lange
SS officer
Died when: 35 years 203 days (426 months)Star Sign: Libra
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Herbert Lange (29 September 1909 – 20 April 1945) was an SS-Sturmbannführer and the commandant of Chelmno death camp until April 1942; leader of the SS Special Detachment Lange conducting the murder of Jews from the Lódz Ghetto.
He was responsible for numerous crimes against humanity including the murder of mental patients in Poland and in Germany during the Aktion T4 "euthanasia" programme and becoming one of the key originators of the Holocaust.
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