Edmund Veesenmayer [SEP] place of birth
Edmund Veesenmayer
Edmund Veesenmayer (12 November 1904 in Bad Kissingen – 24 December 1977 in Darmstadt) was a German politician, officer (SS-Brigadeführer) and war criminal. He significantly contributed to The Holocaust in Hungary and Croatia. He was a subordinate of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Joachim von Ribbentrop; and collaborated with Adolf Eichmann.
Early life.
Veesenmayer was the son of school teacher Franz Xaver Veesenmayer from Oberstaufen in Kempten (Allgäu). From 1923–1926 he studied political science in Munich where he received doctorate in political
Birkenau took place. Between 15–25 May according to "SS-Brigadeführer" Edmund Veesenmayer 138,870 Jews had been deported. On 31 May 1944, Veesenmayer reported additional 60,000 Jews sent to the camps in six days, while the total for the past 16 days stood at 204,312 victims. Between May and July 1944, helped by Hungarian police, the German "Sicherheitspolizei" deported nearly 440,000 Hungarian Jews mostly to Auschwitz-Birkenau,Yad Vashem, Hungarian Jewry at "Holocaust History"./ref or 437,000 at the rate of 6,250 per day.