Walter Hauck ( 4 June 1918 – 6 November 2006 ) was a German SS officer infamous for the atrocities committed under his command during the Second World War . Before the war , he worked in the German police . By 1944 , he had the rank of SS-Obersturmführer in the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend and led the 2nd company of the 12th SS Reconnaissance Battalion . In April 1944 , he was responsible for the Ascq massacre in which 86 civilians were shot and the population brutalized after a railway sabotage . In May 1945 , accompanied by Hildegarde Mende , previously a guard in the Terezinstadt ghetto , he was responsible for another massacre in Leskovice , Czechoslovakia leading to the death of 26 civilians , including a 14-year-old boy , and the destruction of 31 houses . In 1949 , Hauck was judged in Lille , France for the Ascq massacre and was sentenced to death . After requests from some widows of the Ascq massacre , his sentence was converted to life imprisonment . In 1957 , he was freed after a further penalty reduction and went to Germany , where he lived until his death in 2006
Ascq massacre
Ascq massacre
Walter Hauck