Artur Nebe

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(1894-1945?) SS-Gruppenführer Artur Nebe was Berlin Police Commissioner in the 1920s, then after the Nazis came to power, the head of the Kripo (German Criminal Police / Department V of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt).

He also commanded Einsatzgruppe B, which was one of four large murder squads sent out by SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich (the head of the RSHA) to eliminate what the Nazis euphemistically termed 'undesirables' in the New Order.

He was believed to have been involved in various plots including the July 20, 1944 bomb plot against Adolf Hitler, and after the failure of the assassination attempt, went into hiding on an isle in the Wannsee but was later arrested after a rejected mistress informed on him. According to Nazi records, he was executed on March 21, 1945, but there have been several alleged eyewitness sightings of Nebe after the war in Ireland and Italy.