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The death of Willi Herold | The 19-year-old German war criminal

In the final months of the Second World War, specifically in April 1945, a 19-year-old German soldier named Willi Herold found an abandoned Luftwaffe captain's uniform. Dressed in it, he assumed a false identity and presented himself as an officer with direct authority from the Führer to restore order in a prison camp in the Emsland region of north-western Germany. The circumstances at the Aschendorfermoor camp could not have been more conducive to Herold's intentions: it housed thousands of inmates, mainly deserters and dissidents, in the midst of growing disorder caused by the Allied advance and the collapse of the regime in Berlin. In this context, the fake captain took advantage of the situation to form an improvised group and order systematic executions, resulting in the deaths of at least 172 people. The story of Willi Herold, also known as ‘Der Henker vom Emsland’ or ‘'The Executioner of Emsland’, has raised several questions over many years, but the most important one lies in explaining how an ordinary individual, barely a teenager, was able to orchestrate such a magnitude of atrocity through deception without any hint of remorse. In this video, we review Herold's background, from his training in the Hitler Youth and his service on the Italian Front to his capture by British forces and trial in Oldenburg. Table of contents: 00:22 – Introduction 01:49 – Der Hauptmann 02:43 – Willi Herold 12:23 – Blind obedience Music used in this video: Trailing by Christian Andersen Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/t... Twisted Metal by Jon Björk Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/t... Flute by Daniella Ljungsberg Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/t... Circumstances by Magnus Ludvigsson Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/t... The Cold by Alec Slayne Epidemic Sound: https://www.epidemicsound.com/music/t... Bibliographical references: • Ahrens, H. (12 April 2025). Der „Henker vom Emsland“ und das Gedenken der Opfer (in German). NDR. Retrieved from: https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronol... • Corazón Rural, A. (16 August 2019). Willi Herold: ¿el uniforme hace al asesino? (in Spanish). Jot Down Cultural Magazine. Retrieved from: https://www.jotdown.es/2019/08/willi-... • Gedenkstätte Esterwegen (n.d.). Kriegsgräberstätte Aschendorfermoor (in German). Retrieved from: https://www.gedenkstaette-esterwegen.... • Krogmann, K. (14 June 2014). Der Mörder mit der Ordensbrust (in German). NWZ Online. Retrieved from: https://www.nwzonline.de/region/der-m...