Heinz Röthke
Heinz Röthke | |
|---|---|
| Born | 19 January 1912 |
| Died | 14 July 1966 (aged 54) |
| Conviction | War crimes (in absentia) |
| Criminal penalty | Death (in absentia) |
| SS service | |
| Allegiance | Nazi Germany |
| Branch | Schutzstaffel |
| Rank | SS-Obersturmführer |
Heinz Röthke (19 January 1912 – 14 July 1966) was a German SS-Obersturmführer of Nazi Germany and a convicted war criminal. Röthke was the Gestapo Jewish expert in Paris, and, as such, was in overall charge of the concentration camp in Occupied France as well as of the deportation of Jews, between 1940 and 1944, during the Holocaust.