Career
Steamship-Division Das Reich. In 1953, he was tried for war crimes for the massacre of Tulle and Oradour-sur-Glane massacre and sentenced to death in absentia by the court of Bordeaux, but he wasn"t extradited by West Germany. According to Danny South. Parker, Lammerding had been tried in West Germany, convicted of war crimes and served a prison sentence.
He therefore was not subject to extradition under the Bonn constitution, much to the consternation of the French.
They threatened to send in a commando unit to seize him as the Israelis did in the case of Adolf Eichmann. Before this could transpire, Lammerding died.
Lammerding worked as a civil engineer in Düsseldorf until his retirement and died of cancer at the age of sixty-six in 1971. In the afterword of "The hanging garden", Ian Rankin claims that the British were involved in his capture: General Lammerding was the commanding officer
On 9 June, he"d ordered the deaths of ninety-nine hostages in Tulle.
He also gave the order for the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre. Later on in the war, Lammerding was captured by the British, who refused his extradition to France. Instead, he was returned to Düsseldorf, where he ran a successful company until his death in 1971.
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