Theo Saevecke
Theodor Emil Saevecke (–) was an SS officer and perpetrator of the Holocaust in Poland and the Holocaust in Italy. Biography. In 1926, he was a member of the "Freikorps", fighting against both the Weimar Republic and communists. On 1 February 1929, Saevecke became a member of the NSDAP (Nazi Party) (member 112,407). In 1938 he became a member of the "Schutzstaffel" (SS) (member 396,401). After the war in Europe started, he was a member of the mobile SS death squad, "Einsatzgruppen" IV in Poland through 1940. Later he was promoted to the rank of SS-"Hauptsturmführer" and served in  the SS-"Sicherheitsdienst" (SD; Security Service) in Libya and Tunisia between 1942–1943, under Walter Rauff. Between 1943–1945, Saevecke was head of the Gestapo and the Italian fascist police in Milan. During his time he was responsible for the deportation of at least 700 Italian Jews to extermination camps. After the war, in 1962, while a "Kriminalrat" at "Sicherungsgruppe" Bonn, he led a police raid on the Spiegel scandal. From 1947 on he worked for the CIA. The responsibility for his case was moved from American to British side and back and he was never accused of anything. A group of historians  therefore concluded, he was under protection of American intelligence service by then (T. Naftali: The CIA and Eichmann’s Associates. 2005, p. 356). Protected through his connections in post-war Germany, Saevecke was sentenced in absentia in Turin in 1999 to life imprisonment for his involvement in the execution of hostages in Milan in August 1944 but never extradited to Italy. Saevecke died on 16 December 2000.