Walter Hauck (4 June 1918 – 6 November 2006)[1] was a German SS officer infamous for the atrocities committed under his command during the Second World War.
In April 1944, he was responsible for the Ascq massacre in which 86 civilians were shot and the population brutalized after a railway sabotage.
In May 1945, accompanied by Hildegarde Mende, previously a guard in the Theresienstadt Ghetto, Hauck was responsible for another massacre in Leskovice, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, leading to the death of 25 civilians, including a 13-year-old boy, and the destruction of 31 houses.
After requests for mercy from some widows of the Ascq massacre, his sentence was converted to life imprisonment.
In 1969 and 1977, Czechoslovakia asked Germany to extradite him for punishment for the second massacre, but these requests were rejected by the Stuttgart court.