Aleksander (Alexander) Laak (24 August 1907 – 6 September 1960)[1] was a lieutenant and the commander of the Jägala concentration camp during the German occupation of Estonia.

The Soviet investigators reached the conclusion that 2,000–3,000 were killed in Jägala and Kalevi-Liiva taken together, but the number 5,000 (as determined by the Extraordinary State Commission in 1944) was written into the verdict.

[16][11][17][18][19] Thereafter, after reading of the arrests of Jaan Viik and Ralf Gerrets (both of whom were later convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death, and executed in 1961) for mass killings of mostly Jewish East Europeans while under Nazi occupation, and being himself identified as a mass murderer, he apparently committed suicide by hanging himself in the garage of his home at the age of 53, on 6 September 1960.

[27] Israeli journalist Michael Elkins claimed that Laak was in fact confronted one day after his wife had left their house to go to the movies, by a Jewish Avenger squad that clandestinely murdered Nazis.

He was, according to Elkins, confronted with his crimes, and their intended punishment, and he accepted their offer of being allowed to commit suicide rather than be killed.