He also served as the SiPo and SD commander in occupied France and was the SS and Police Leader in Oberelsaß (Upper Alsace).

He then was posted to SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich's Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) at SS headquarters in Berlin.

It stated that Jews leaving Germany were to be stripped of their citizenship and their property transferred to the Reich ... On December 3, 1941, Suhr signed a circular referring to this question that was forwarded to all RSHA stations.

All Jews were obliged to complete with care a standard assets’ declaration to cover all possessions except for the small amount of property the deportee would take with him or her at departure.

[1] This meeting defined who would be considered a Jew for deportation to the extermination camps in the eastern occupied territories where they would be murdered.

[4] In November 1942, Suhr was transferred to Einsatzgruppe C, which was attached to Army Group South operating in northern Ukraine.

[2] These were special death squads whose function was to exterminate Jews, political commissars, members of the NKVD, Soviet partisans and any other so-called "undesirable elements.

[6] In December 1943, Suhr left Ukraine for Paris and was appointed Befehlshaber (Commander) of the SD and the SiPo, which included the Gestapo, for all of occupied France.