Gustav Richter

Gustav Richter (12 November 1913 – 5 June 1997) was an aide to Adolf Eichmann, an adviser on Jewish affairs (Judenberater), during Nazism era and a convicted war criminal.

Richter did manage to prevent the emigration of deportees, particularly orphans from Transnistria, to Palestine, in accordance with the detailed instructions he received directly from Eichmann and the German Foreign Ministry.

On 23 August 1944, the Romanian royalist forces under King Michael I staged a coup, deposed the government of military dictator Ion Antonescu, quit the Axis, and joined the Allies.

[citation needed] After several years in prisoner-of-war camps in the Soviet Union, Richter was tried and convicted of war crimes in 1951.

In early 1982, Richter was sentenced to four years of imprisonment but was released on the basis that he had already spent time in prison whilst in the Soviet Union.