Career
Allegedly, he was a Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security) spy. A known fact is that he lived in Finland in 1950s and 1960s. A former police officer, editor Matti Paloaro claims that Assmann called him in December 1997 and asked him to come and listen to his life story.
According to Paloaro, Assmann told that he had served in Steamship troops and also as a guard in Auschwitz during World World War World War II When the relationship was found out, he was sent to the Eastern Front.
He was captured by Soviets and sent to prison camp. There, he chose to become a spy.
Assmann has also been linked to the Lake Bodom murders as a potential suspect. According to the Finnish police, he had an alibi.
He has also been linked in two other unsolved murder cases in Finland, including that of Kyllikki Saari.
