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Helmut KnochenHelmut Knochen (born 1910) was the senior commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and SD in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France during the World War II. He was born in Magdeburg, Germany. Before joining the Nazi Party in 1932, he worked as a teacher and editor. In 1936, he joined the SS and became involved in the SD administration. In 1940, he was appointed the senior commander of security in Paris. In 1942, the jurisdiction under his controlled stretched from northen France to Belgium. He was promoted to the rank of Standartenfhrer in the same year. Knochen was involved in the deportation of French Jews to concentration camps and was reponsible for the execution thousands of Frenchmen. On the July 20 plot, together with the top security man in Paris, Karl Oberg, he was arrested by Army troops under the command of Paris military governor, General von Stlpnagel. He was released after the coup collapsed. Following the liberation of Paris, Knochen was transferred to the Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler. In June 1946, a British Military Tribunal sentenced Knochen to death for the murder of British pilots. However, the sentence was never carried out. He was extradited to France in 1954 and sentenced to death. The sentence was later commuted to life imprisoment. In 1962, Charles de Gaulle, pardoned him and he was later sent back to Germany, where he retired to Baden-Baden.
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