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Siert Bruins (Weite, the Netherlands, 2 March 1921 - 28 September 2015), also known as Siegfried Bruns and nicknamed the Beast of Appingedam, was a Dutch member of the SS and SD during World War Two. == Biography == Bruins grew up in Stobben. He had 3 brothers. Together with his father Harm and his brother Derk-Elsko he became a member of the Dutch political party NSB. During the war both Bruins brothers joined the Waffen SS and fought at the eastern front,〔 where Derk-Elsko received the Knights' Cross.〔 When Siert became wounded he returned to the Netherlands and became member of the German Sicherheitsdienst. He was active around Delfzijl hunting members of the resistnace. During the last days of WW II Bruins fled to Germany, where he could escape from the Dutch jurisidiction because he was granted the German nationality as a former nazi-soldier〔 on basis of a 1943 law.〔 In Germany he lived in the village of Breckerfeld, where he was discovered by Simon Wiesenthal. He changed his name to Bruns and operated a farm in horticulture. It appears he has visited his mother in Assen in the trunk of a car several times.〔 The wife and two sons of Bruins were during the trial in 1978 not aware of his crimes. Also Derk-Elsko Bruins lived in Germany after the war, where he died on 5 Februari 1986 in Gerolstein,〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Siert Bruins」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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