Heinz Barth (15 October 1920 – 6 August 2007) was a mid-ranking member in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II.

The 1983 East German court found that Barth participated, as a member of security police battalion, in execution of 92 Czech civilians during martial law in summer of 1942[2][4] in Klatovy and Pardubice.

He was also one of those who, in June 1942, took part in the killing of adult men and women in Ležáky, according to the historian Eduard Stehlík from the Military History Institute in Prague.

[4] Identified and arrested on 14 June 1981 in Gransee, following an extensive investigation by the Stasi,[8] Barth was tried in 1983 in East Germany and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes.

Busse instead requested a life sentence for Barth, calling him "a relentless officer and a cold-blooded, merciless executor of fascist violence.

"[10]Other Nazi officers involved had taken refuge in West Germany (such as General Lammerding, commander of the Das Reich division[11]) and had not been judged.

"[7][12] Controversy arose because of the 800 mark pension Barth had been receiving as a wounded veteran for his lost leg since 1991, following German reunification.

[4] Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld commented that "the man responsible of this horrible crime [in Oradour-sur-Glane], the one who had authorised its execution, General Heinz Lammerding, who lived in the Federal Republic of Germany, died unpunished.