In September 1944, the SS brought in new Commando 1005 to exhume and cremate any remaining evidence of genocide.[11] Bothmann took part in the shooting of the last Jewish workers. He fled the forest camp just before the arrival of the Soviet Army. His final assignment was in Flensburg with SIPO and the Border Police before the wars end.[5] Captured in West Germany by the British, he hanged himself while in custody,[12][13] unaware that a life of freedom might have awaited him, similar to other mass murderers (Strippel,[14] Reinefarth,[15] Fiedler)[16] because genocide was not in the criminal code of the Third Reich and would not be applied retroactively.[17] Yet, Hans Bothmann was not alone. He was one of at least a dozen high profile Nazi German functionaries and Holocaust perpetrators who committed suicide, including Theodor Dannecker (45), Odilo Globocnik (45), Richard Glücks (45), Friedrich Kruger (45), Ilse Koch (67), Ernst Grawitz (45), Karl Jager (59), Otto Thierack (46), Walter Frank (45), Robert Ley (45), Manfred von Killinger (44), and Hans Jeschonnek (43) among other nationals.[13] ITS NOT A CRIME IF ITS NOT ON THE BOOKS....WOW
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