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Franz Six

1930-1945

Basic Information

Education

  • Full name: Dr. Franz Alfred Six
  • Born in Mannheim, Germany on August 12, 1909
  • Ranked SS-Brigadeführer
  • Came from a strong academic background
  • Dr. Franz completed his classical high school in 1930 and proceeded to the University of Heidelberg to study sociology and politics
  • He had a late graduation due to dropping out from time to time to earn money to graduate
  • He later graduated with a degree of Doctor in Philosophy in 1934
  • In 1936, Six earned the high degree of Dr.phil.habil. and began teaching at the University of Königsberg
  • By 1939, he had become chair for Foreign Political Science at the University of Berlin and was its first Dean of the faculty for Foreign Countries

Franz's part in the party

Nazi Official

  • On September 17 1940, the same day on which Hitler abandoned the idea of an invasion of Great Britain, Heydrich charged Six to plan the elimination of anti-Nazi elements in Britain
  • Some other of his responsibilities included the detention of some 2,300 individuals immediately after the conquest of Britain by Germany
  • Franz Six was also charged with the creation of six Einsatzgruppen that were to be located in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool and either Edinburgh or Glasgow
  • These death squads would be charged with the elimination of civilian resistance members and Jews all over Great Britain
  • After the Battle of Britain, Hitler gave up on his attempts to invade Great Britain and thus Six's plans came to nothing
  • On June 20 1941, Six was assigned as chief of Vorkommando Moscow a unit of Einsatzgruppe B in the Soviet Union
  • Six was promoted on 9 November 1941 to SS-Oberführer for exceptional service in the Einsatz and again on January 31, 1945, to SS-Brigadeführer
  • Six joined the Nazi party in 1930 with member number 245,670 and the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1932
  • Six joined the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) in 1935 with a SS membership number of 107,480
  • Impressed by his academic achievements and outstanding curriculum, Reinhard Heydrich appointed him as head of Amt VII, Written Records of the RSHA which dealt mainly with ideological tasks
  • Some of these tasks included the creation of anti-semitic, anti-masonic propaganda, the sounding of public opinion and monitoring of Nazi indoctrination by the public
  • He held this post until 1934

Nuremberg Trials

Death

  • Franz Six retired to Friedrichshafen in southwest Germany
  • He worked as a publicity/advertising executive for Porsche
  • In 1960, he was interviewed by British journalist Comer Clarke for his book "England Under Hitler"
  • Six was called as one of four witnesses by defense attorney Robert Servatius in the 1961 trial in Israel of Adolf Eichmann, another major Nazi organizer
  • Six's testimony was introduced in Eichmann's defense, but proved to be of more help to the prosecution
  • Franz Six later died in 1975
  • Six was tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg in the Einsatzgruppen Trial of 1948
  • As a result, the trials were unable to link him directly to any atrocities, and the tribunal sentenced him to 20 years' imprisonment
  • A clemency court commuted this sentence to 10 years, and he was released on September 30, 1952
  • CIA files suggest Six joined the Gehlen Organization, the forerunner to the Bundesnachrichtendienst, in the 1950s
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