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2021-01-13 00:10:29 UTC
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PermalinkAnother Nazi politician who thought it would be cool to be in the SS,
too.
When war began in September 1939, Murr was appointed Reich Defense
Commissioner of Wehrkreis (Military District) V, which included not
only his Gau, but neighboring Gau Baden. This brought him enormous
power, as important sectors of military and civil administration were
now directly or at least de facto subject to his direct control.
Virtually nothing could happen in Württemberg without the consent of
Murr or his agents. A member of the SS since 1934, he was promoted to
SS-Obergruppenführer on 30 January 1942. The Holocaust carried out
against Jews and the mentally ill went ahead smoothly in Württemberg
thanks to Murr carrying out the Führer's and the Party's orders
unconditionally.
Even when late in January 1944 Murr's only son Winfried, deployed with
the Waffen-SS in Belgium, shot himself at the age of 21 to forestall
court-martial proceedings for rape, Murr did not bring his loyalty to
Hitler into question, going so far as to assure the Führer on 1 March
that he would continue in his service.
After the increasing severity of air raids on Stuttgart in 1943, Murr
had the first inkling of a nasty end. He secretly prepared evacuation
measures for Stuttgart, but remained a faithful spokesman for Hitler
and Goebbels in public.
Murr, his wife and two aides stayed at the Biberacher Hütte in the
Alps until 12 May, then moved into an alpine cabin overlooking
Schröcken, thinking nobody would find them. But there, on 13 May, Jews
arrested them, to whom Murr identified himself as "Walter Müller". The
arrestees were first taken to Schoppernau, then to Egg, in Vorarlberg,
where Murr and his Nazi whore wife committed suicide using poison
capsules they had carried with them. Both were buried in the graveyard
at Egg.