Wilhelm Zoepf

Wilhelm Zoepf, also rendered Zöpf, (11 March 1908 in Munich – 7 July 1980) was a German Schutzstaffel (SS) Sturmbannführer and a figure in the Holocaust.

In this capacity Zoepf was sent by Eichmann in 1941 to the Netherlands in order to work alongside the Sicherheitspolizei in deportations.

[5] From their base in The Hague the duo ran the Department of Jewish Affairs for the Nazi occupiers in the Netherlands.

[2] In the 1960s Zoepf was brought to trial in Munich, along with Harster and Gertrud Slottke for his complicity in the killing of 83,000 Dutch Jews.

[8][9] After a trial that received high media attention Zoepf was sentenced to nine years imprisonment.