Franz Rademacher

In 1940, he was selected to lead Referat D III, or Judenreferat, of Joachim von Ribbentrop's Foreign Affairs Ministry.

He clashed briefly with Adolf Eichmann over organizational control of the plan, which would shortly be abandoned because of Germany's changing fortunes in World War II.

After his visit to Belgrade, Rademacher filed an expense claim stating that the official purpose of the trip was to "liquidate the Jews".

[citation needed] Immediately after the war, the unit was put at the disposal of Sefton Delmer's news agency in Hamburg.

[3] In 1962, the Israeli spy Eli Cohen delivered a letter bomb to Rademacher in a failed assassination attempt.

[4] He returned voluntarily to West Germany on 30 November 1966, where he was taken into custody by the security police on the tarmac at the Nuremberg Airport.

In 1971, a West German high court in Karlsruhe overruled the judgment against Rademacher and ordered a new trial for his crimes during the Second World War.

Rademacher as a participant in the meeting on the Final Solution of the Jewish Question on 6 March 1942 at the Reich Main Security Office