Siert Bruins

Siert Bruins, also known as Siegfried Bruns and nicknamed the Beast of Appingedam, was a Dutch member of the SS and SD during World War Two.

Bruins was sentenced to death in absentia by a Dutch court in 1949 for his murder of Dutch farmer and resistance member Aldert Klaas Dijkema.

In 1978, Bruins was tracked to the German town of Altenbreckerfeld by Simon Wiesenthal. He was arrested and placed on trial in Germany, where he was found guilty; he served five years in prison.

In October 2013 he was placed on trial in the Netherlands.