Given name: Herman Family name: Hoefle

  • YES
  • Male
  • Herman
  • Hoefle
  • SS-Sturmbannfuehrer. Plenipotentiary for resettlement matters (Der Beauftragte fur Umsiedlungsfragen). Leader of the Lublin group; a senior SS officer during the deportations. In autumn 1942 he went mad. On 12 September 1942 a group of Jews from Zelazna Street No. 103 was sent to the Umschlagplatz (Hoefle had promised them protection). After that he received a message that his wife and children died in bombardment in Germany. He thought that it was a punishment sent from God.

  • Germans
  • name unknown.

  • [s., 119,, 120]