Julius Dettmann
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Julius Dettmann was a German
officer of the SD
of the SS
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Dettman belonged to the SS with the card number 414,783, and to the Nazi Party with card number 722,240, member of Section IVB4 of the Gestapo. He was stationed in Amsterdam
, Holland, during the German occupation of that country. He was promoted to SS Obersturmführer (Lieutenant) on November 9, 1942. On August 4, 1944, he received a phone call reporting that there were Jews hidden on the premises at 263 Prinzengracht in Amsterdam. The people in question were Anne Frank
, her parents, sister, and four other Jews. He immediately dispatched a commission led by SD Oberscharfuhrer (Staff Sargent) Karl Silberbauer
, telling Silberbauer that the call had come from "a reliable source". Silberbauer and his contingent of NSB
plainclothes officers raided the building and arrested the eight in hiding, who after questioning at SD headquarters, were deported to Westerbork concentration camp, and later to Auschwitz
.
After the war ended, he was arrested in Holland and remained a prisoner of war; he committed suicide on July 31, 1945, before being presented to court. He never revealed who betrayed Anne Frank. He is buried in Holland.
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
officer of the SD
Sicherheitsdienst
Sicherheitsdienst , full title Sicherheitsdienst des Reichsführers-SS, or SD, was the intelligence agency of the SS and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the...
of the SS
Schutzstaffel
The Schutzstaffel |Sig runes]]) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. Built upon the Nazi ideology, the SS under Heinrich Himmler's command was responsible for many of the crimes against humanity during World War II...
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Dettman belonged to the SS with the card number 414,783, and to the Nazi Party with card number 722,240, member of Section IVB4 of the Gestapo. He was stationed in Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Amsterdam is the largest city and the capital of the Netherlands. The current position of Amsterdam as capital city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands is governed by the constitution of August 24, 1815 and its successors. Amsterdam has a population of 783,364 within city limits, an urban population...
, Holland, during the German occupation of that country. He was promoted to SS Obersturmführer (Lieutenant) on November 9, 1942. On August 4, 1944, he received a phone call reporting that there were Jews hidden on the premises at 263 Prinzengracht in Amsterdam. The people in question were Anne Frank
Anne Frank
Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is one of the most renowned and most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Acknowledged for the quality of her writing, her diary has become one of the world's most widely read books, and has been the basis for several plays and films.Born in the city of Frankfurt...
, her parents, sister, and four other Jews. He immediately dispatched a commission led by SD Oberscharfuhrer (Staff Sargent) Karl Silberbauer
Karl Silberbauer
Karl Josef Silberbauer was an Austrian SD officer holding the rank of SS-Oberscharführer , when, serving in the occupied Netherlands, he arrested Anne Frank and her family in their hiding place in 1944....
, telling Silberbauer that the call had come from "a reliable source". Silberbauer and his contingent of NSB
NSB
-Education:*National Spelling Bee, the Scripps National Spelling Bee, a competition in the US*National Science Bowl, a high school academic competition*Northampton School for Boys, a British Secondary School*North Sydney Boys High School, an Australian high school...
plainclothes officers raided the building and arrested the eight in hiding, who after questioning at SD headquarters, were deported to Westerbork concentration camp, and later to Auschwitz
Auschwitz concentration camp
Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
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After the war ended, he was arrested in Holland and remained a prisoner of war; he committed suicide on July 31, 1945, before being presented to court. He never revealed who betrayed Anne Frank. He is buried in Holland.