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40 Fascinating Facts About the Relatives of Nazis After WWII

Khalid Elhassan March 14, 2019 24 min

9. Hans Ludin Deported Thousands of Jews to Their Deaths

Hans Ludin was a Brown Shirt who joined Germany’s Foreign Office. In 1941, he was appointed ambassador to the Slovak Republic – a German client state carved out of a dismembered Czechoslovakia. Ludin wielded great influence, which he used to convince the Slovak government to deport the country’s Jews and hand them over to the machinery of the Holocaust. After the war, he was tried and convicted in Czechoslovakia as a war criminal, and was sentenced to hang. It took him twenty minutes, dangling from a rope, to die. He was survived by six children.

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Khalid Elhassan

A lifelong history buff, I developed a particular passion for WW2 history as a child, when I spent hours listening to my grandfather, enraptured, as he recounted his wartime experiences in the British East African Campaign and with the British 8th Army in North Africa.

I graduated with a history BA from George Mason University, then went on to get a JD from the University of Virginia School of Law. After lawyering for a decade, I moved to sunny Rio de Janeiro and a less demanding career, opening a tourism agency in Copacabana.

A big chunk of my free time is spent blogging (you can follow me on Quora https://www.quora.com/profile/Khalid-Elhassan ) or freelance writing, mostly about my favorite subject, history.