• Dutch Waffen -SS

Date of birth:

December 15th, 1892 (Denekamp/Overijssel, The Netherlands)

Date of death:

March 28th, 1957 (Rotterdam/South Holland, The Netherlands)

Nationality:

Dutch

Dr. Henri Hondelink, an ENT doctor from Utrecht, joined the NSB in 1933 and did so again in 1942. He joined the Dutch ambulance (Waffen-SS) to the Eastern Front, where he served in a field hospital near Kyiv, among other places. Hondelink was director of the Bergweg Hospital in Rotterdam from 15 August 1944 until the liberation. Towards the end of the war, in February and March 1945, he performed autopsies on executed people in SS service (Hofplein & Coolsingel).

Hospital staff were more supportive of him. For example, he was said to have helped Jews in the hospital and foraged for the hospital in Groningen during the 'Oorlogswinter'.

In August 1948, the prosecution demanded a ten-year prison sentence, but Hondelink was given a one-year suspended prison sentence instead. A psychiatric report concluded that Hondelink had diminished responsibility.

Hondelink died at the age of 67 in 1957 in Rotterdam.

April 1944: Waffen-SS
?: SS-sturmbannführer

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• - Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad, 28-08-1948
  - Winschoter courant, 28-08-1948
  - Rotterdams Archief
  - Overlijden Henri Hondelink op 28 maart 1957 te Rotterdam; Open Archieven
  - Geboorte Henri Hondelink op 15 december 1892 te Denekamp; Open Archieven
  - CABR files
  

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