Klaas-Carel Faber

Klaas Carel Faber in his SS-uniform

November 2010, the Dutch Justice Department issued an European arrest warrant for the arrest of Klaas-Carel Faber, a former member of the Dutch SS and collaborator with the Nazi organisations Sipo and SD. Faber lives in Germany since the 1950’s when he managed to escape from a Dutch prison. The 26th of November 2010, the Bavarian Justice Department reacted by saying that they need more convincing and new evidence against Faber to start a new lawsuit.

Klaas-Carel was born in 1922 in Haarlem into a real NSB-family. His brother Pieter Johan was executed after the war for his crimes committed during the war and their father Pieter was shot in June 1944 by the female resistance-member Hannie Schaft. Klaas-Carel was for some time a bodyguard of NSB-leader Anton Mussert. Later on he joined the Dutch SS and the Sonderkommando Feldmeijer. Members of this Sonderkommando killed about 56 people in the period from September 1943 to September 1944 (Aktion Silbertanne) as a reprisal for the assassination of Dutch collaborators by the Dutch resistance. Heinrich Boere was also a member of this Sonderkommando.
In the last year of the war he and his brother were active in Drenthe, in the surroundings of the Westerbork camp and later in the city of Groningen where they worked for the German SiPo and SD. Here in the Scholtenhuis in the centre of Groningen was the headquarters of the SiPo and SD (Sicherheits Polizei und Sicherheitsdienst) where people that were captured by the SD, mainly members of the resistance, were interrogated and tortured. Many of them were later executed in the surrounding area’s. Local people called it: the antechamber of hell. It’s estimated that about 475 people died on the hands of the executioners that worked in the Scholtenhuis. In april 1945 the Germans set fire to the Scholtenhuis and it was later bombarded by the English.
Klaas-Carel and his brother were sentenced to death after the war but the sentence of Klaas-Carel was changed to life imprisonment. Together with other former collaborators he managed to escape in 1952 and fled to Germany. Because of a law which was issued under Hitler, the socalled Führer-Erlass, people that volunteered in a German organisation during the war (like the SS, SD, Kriegsmarine), became Germans automatically. After the war the German government always kept to the policy of not extraditing German citizens.

Sources;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaas_Carel_Faber
http://www.scholtenhuis.nl/
http://www.depers.nl/binnenland/527323/Beieren-wil-nieuw-bewijs-Faber.html
http://erijswijk.blogspot.com/2012/05/klaas-carel-faber-died-may-24-2012.html