Date of birth:

November 1st, 1908 (Todtgüslingen, Germany)

Date of death:

June 30th, 1993 (unknown)

Nationality:

German

Richard Heinrich Georg Nitsch was a German police officer during World War II. He was a Gestapo agent working for the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) in Limburg and was responsible for the deaths of a large number of people.

In 1948, Nitsch was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Special Court of 's-Hertogenbosch (for multiple murders and assaults on resistance fighters in Limburg). On 18-04-1959, his life sentence was commuted to 22 years and 9 months. In 1960 (after 12 years in prison), Nitsch was deported to West Germany as an 'undesirable alien'.

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  - Archief Well
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  - De Waarheid, 30 November 1947
  - Limburgsch Dagblad, 16 November 1948
  

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