Everything about The Henneicke Column totally explained
The
Henneicke Column was a group of
Dutch Nazi collaborators working in the investigative division of the
Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration (Zentralstelle für jüdische Auswanderung), with headquarters in Amsterdam, during the
German occupation of the
Netherlands in
World War II .
Between March and October 1943 the group, led by
Wim Henneicke and
Willem Briedé, was responsible for tracking down
Jews in hiding and arresting them. The group arrested and "delivered" to the
Nazi authorities 8,000-9,000
Jews. Most of them were deported to
Westerbork concentration camp and later shipped to and murdered in
Sobibor and other German
extermination camps.
The bounty paid to Henneicke Column members for each captured Jew was 7.50 guilders (equivalent to about US$47.50). The group, consisting of 18 core members, ended its work and was disbanded on
October 1 1943. However, the Column’s leaders continued working for the
Central Bureau for Jewish Emigration tracking down hidden Jewish property.
Before Germany retreated from the Netherlands (May 1945), Wim Henneicke was assassinated by the
Dutch resistance in December 1944 in Amsterdam. Willem Briedé escaped the country and settled in Germany. In 1949 he was tried by a
Dutch court in absentia and received the death penalty. The sentence was never carried out; Briedé died of natural causes in Germany in January 1962.
The history of the Henneicke Column was researched by Dutch journalist
Ad van Liempt, who in 2002 published in the Netherlands
A Price on Their Heads, Kopgeld, Dutch bounty hunters in search of Jews, 1943.
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