Hans Georg Calmeyer

[1] In 2020, Yad Vashem historians began researching newly uncovered evidence suggesting that Calmeyer also helped send hundreds of people directly into death camps during the Dutch occupation.

After the war, Willy Lages, the German police chief in Amsterdam, remarked that "to him Calmeyer's activities had always been a book with seven seals.

[5] During an interview in 1967, he admitted to knowing about the Final Solution, and that the rejecting of an appeal was effectively a death sentence.

In 1940, Calmeyer, serving as a soldier and a member of an aerial defense intelligence unit, took part in the invasion of the Netherlands by the German Army.

Unlike the policy in Germany, Dutch people of Jewish descent could protest their registration as full-blooded Jews by documenting and proving their ancestry through word of mouth or by presenting birth certificates to demonstrate partial non-Jewish descent.

One author stated that Calmeyer did his administrative duties and sent people to their deaths, calling him "an important cog in the machinery of systematic murder".

[11] One 92-year-old Holocaust survivor claimed that Calmeyer had her sent to Auschwitz and threatened to have her non-Jewish Catholic father deported.

[13] Historian Petra van den Boomgaard has stated: "Calmeyer did help many Jews, and there is a large group of people who attribute their survival to him and who are still very grateful to him for this.

"[18][19] Others argue that the SS became suspicious of Calmeyer and that he was being watched, placing him in a desperate position in which he was forced to choose which Jews to save.