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Walter Rauff (June 19, 1906 – May 14, 1984) was an SS officer in Nazi Germany, attaining the grade of Colonel (''Standartenführer'') in June 1944. From January 1938 he was an aide of Reinhard Heydrich firstly in the ''Sicherheitsdienst'' or SD, the SS security service, later in the ''Reichssicherheitshauptamt'' or RSHA, the Reich Security Main Office, a department created by Himmler in 1939 grouping the Gestapo, SD and ''Kripo'', the criminal police. Between 1958 and 1962 he worked for the ''Bundesnachrichtendienst'', West Germany's intelligence service.〔http://www.bbc.co.uk (Wanted Nazi Walther Rauff 'was West German spy' ) 27 September 2011〕 His funeral in Santiago, Chile was attended by hundreds of old Nazis.〔(The Independent, 27 January 2013 )〕 Rauff is thought to have been responsible for nearly 100,000 deaths during the Second World War. He was instrumental in the creation of the Nazis’ “mobile gas chamber”. His victims included Communists, Jews, Roma and the physically and mentally ill.〔 In the late 1970s and '80s, he was arguably the most wanted Nazi fugitive still alive. ==From the Navy to the SS== According to the MI5 file on Walter Rauff released in 2005: :"Rauff joined the ''Reichsmarine'' (the German Navy) in 1924 as a young cadet. After a period of training as a midshipman he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1936 and given command of a minesweeper. He was a friend of Reinhard Heydrich, who also served in the Navy in the 1920s. Heydrich was hired by SS chief Heinrich Himmler in 1931 to serve as the head of the SS counter-intelligence system, and when Rauff resigned from the Navy in 1937, Heydrich took him under his wing. Rauff was given the job of putting the SS and its security service, the ''Sicherheitsdienst'', onto a war footing".〔"Walter Rauff" in "5 September 2005 releases: German intelligence officers", ''MI5-Security Service'' ()(Dead Link). Rauff left the Navy following an adultery scandal, but he was discharged "with all honours", as he said in a 1972 deposition before the German prosecutor in Santiago de Chile ().〕 During his thirteen years in the Navy, Rauff became acquainted with Reinhard Heydrich, and saw service in South America and Spain, as a young officer in 1924. Between 1940 and 1941 Rauff went back to the Navy as a volunteer, commanding a mine sweeper flotilla in the English Channel. He was promoted Lieutenant Commander (''Korvettenkapitän'') in April 1941, shortly before he was discharged from active service, he then returned to the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). During early 1940 he headed the SD in German occupied Norway. 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「Walter Rauff」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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