Walter Hauck is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 SS captain famous for the atrocities made under his command during the Second world war.

Second world war and massacres

Before the Second world war, he worked in the German police. During the Second world war, in 1944 he was the rank of SS-('Obersturmführer

Obersturmführer

Obersturmführer was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi party that was used by the SS and also as a rank of the SA. Translated as “Senior Assault Leader”, the rank of Obersturmführer was first created in 1932 as the result of an expansion of the Sturmabteilung and the need for an additional rank in...

) in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend

12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend

The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend was a German Waffen SS armoured division during World War II. The Hitlerjugend was unique because the majority of its junior enlisted men were drawn from members of the Hitler Youth, while the senior NCOs and officers were generally veterans of the Eastern...

, leading the 2nd company of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion.
He is the responsible of Ascq massacre

Ascq massacre

The Ascq massacre is a massacre of 86 men on April 1944 in Ascq by the Nazis during the Second World War.The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend set out on rail trucks for Normandy at the end of March, 1944. On April 1944, 1st, the train was approaching the gare d'Ascq when an explosion blew the...

 in April 1944, where 86 civilians were shoot and the population brutalized after a sabotage on the railway.

In May 1945, he did an another massacre in Leskovice

Leskovice

Leskovice is a village and municipality in Pelhřimov District in the Vysočina Region of the Czech Republic.The municipality covers an area of , and has a population of 101 ....

 in Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

. 26 civilians died (including a young boy of 13 y.o), 31 houses were burned down.

After the war

Hauck was judged in Lille

Lille

Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

 in 1949 about Ascq massacre

Ascq massacre

The Ascq massacre is a massacre of 86 men on April 1944 in Ascq by the Nazis during the Second World War.The 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend set out on rail trucks for Normandy at the end of March, 1944. On April 1944, 1st, the train was approaching the gare d'Ascq when an explosion blew the...

 and was sentenced to death. After queries of Ascqer widows, the sentence was convert to imprisonment for life. In 1957, he was free and went to Germany, where lived until his death in 2006.
Both in 1969 and 1977, Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

ask Germany for a punishment, but it was rejected by the Stuttgart court. In 2005, Czech republic has started an action to bring him to justice.