Major Wilhelm Gustav Friedrich Trapp, nicknamed Papa Trapp by his subordinates,[1] (4 September 1889 – 18 December 1948) was a German career policeman who commanded the Reserve Police Battalion 101 formation of Nazi Germany's uniformed police force known as the Order Police (Ordnungspolizei). The Battalion was the subject of Christopher Browning's Ordinary Men.
A World War I veteran, recipient of the Iron Cross First Class, and an "old Party fighter", having joined the NSDAP in December 1932,[2] Trapp served in occupied Poland during World War II, subsequently leading his battalion of nearly 500 middle-aged men from Hamburg on genocidal missions against the Polish Jews.[3]
After the war, Trapp was taken into British custody. After investigation by the Polish Military Mission, the British extradited him to Poland in 1946, where he was put on trial as a war criminal. Trapp was found guilty and sentenced to death by the Siedlce District Court on 6 July 1948, and executed by hanging on 18 December 1948, along with fellow officer Gustav Drewes.[4][5][6]
^Browning (2017), p. 7.
^Browning (2017), p. 64.
^Browning (2017), pp. 69–76.
^Trials (Sygn. GK 284), Trapp Gustaw: File SOSBP 45. Protocols. Siedlce (Poland) Sąd Okręgowy: Instytut Pamięci Narodowej; Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu, ul. Towarowa 28, Warsaw, Poland. PDF file from ushmm.org; retrieved 3 December 2014.
^Dokumentationszentrum für Kriegsverbrecherprozesse (ICWC): Polen Philipps-Universität Marburg - ICWC.
^Struan Robertson. "Hamburg Police Battalions during the Second World War". Archived from the original (Internet Archive) on 22 February 2008. Retrieved 24 September 2009.
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