Adolf Diekmann

Adolf Diekmann (18 December 1914 – 29 June 1944 Normandy) was Sturmbannführer-SS, commander of the battalion of the regiment of the Fuhrer of the Reich's SS responsible for the Massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane, in which 642 inhabitants were killed (245 women, 207 children and 190 men).

Biography
In reports and writings, he is often identified as Otto Diekmann (or Dickmann). Before the war he trained at the SS-Junkerschule. Adolf Diekmann and his unit perpetrated a number of massacres in the south of France, among which was Oradour.

He died on the Normandy front on 29 June 1944, Adolf Diekmann was never tried for the acts committed in Bordeaux but he was found responsible on 12 January 1953 for the massacre of Oradour. His grave is located at the German cemetery at La Cambe German war cemetery in block 25, row 4, grave 121.