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SS-Untersturmführer Carl-Johannes Torkel Tillmann or just Torkel Tillman (* November 19th, 1917 in Skillersta - † KIA June 26th, 1944 in Normandy) was a Swedish soldier in the Waffen SS during World War II.

Biography
Tillman served as an NCO in the signal corps of the Swedish Army from 1 April 1938 until 30 March 1942. The day after he resigned from his post, he became a German citizen, but still kept his Swedish citizenship. With his mother being German, Torkel had lived in Germany for many years. On 1 June 1942 Tillman enlisted in the Waffen-SS and was sent to the Germanic SS Training Camp at Sennheim, Alsace. He attended an officer's training course at SS-Junkerschule "Tölz" from 6 September 1943 — 11 March 1944. Afterwards he was assigned to the 11. Oberjunker Training course of the Signals School of the Waffen-SS but on the 9 April 1944 he was transferred to the SS-Kriegsberichter Standarte "Kurt Eggers" [War Correspondents] (Note: possibly due to the fact he was very fluent in two languages: German and English). He was then posted to the 12th SS-Panzer-Division "Hitlerjugend". It was while he was serving with that unit he was promoted to SS-Untersturmführer came through on 21 June 1944. S-Ustuf. Tillman was K.I.A. on 26 June 1944 during the "Hitlerjugend" Division's defence of Normandy against the Allies.