Karl Nicolussi-Leck

Karl Nicolussi-Leck
Born 14 March 1917
Died 30 August 2008 (2008-08-31) (aged 91)
Nationality German
Occupation Waffen-SS commander
Nazi activist
Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross

Karl Nicolussi-Leck (14 March 1917 – 30 August 2008) was a mid-ranking commander in the Waffen-SS of Nazi Germany during World War II. Post-war, helped many SS personnel flee Europe.

In the late interwar period, Nicolussi-Leck helped to found the Nazi movement Völkischer Kampfring Südtirol which opposed the fascist attempts to italianize his native, widely german-speaking region South Tyrol, annexed by Italy in 1919, and backed in 1939 the South Tyrol Option Agreement.[1] In January 1940, Nicolussi-Leck volunteered for the Waffen-SS and served in the SS divisions Das Reich and Wiking. He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. After the war, Nicolussi-Leck helped many SS personnel leave Europe for South America. He immigrated to Argentina in 1948, but returned in the early 50's to the South Tyrol, his native region, where he worked as an entrepreneur for Mannesmann. Karl Nicolussi-Leck died in 2008 in Bozen, South Tyrol.

References

  1. ↑ Steinacher, Gerald (2012), "Ausgrenzung in die Wirtschaft? Karrieren von Südtiroler Nationalsozialisten nach 1945", in Hannes Obermair, Regionale Zivilgesellschaft in Bewegung, Vienna-Bozen: Folio Verlag, p. 273, ISBN 978-3-85256-618-4

Further reading

  • Fellgiebel, Walther-Peer (2000) [1986]. Die Träger des Ritterkreuzes des Eisernen Kreuzes 1939–1945 [The Bearers of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross 1939–1945] (in German). Friedberg, Germany: Podzun-Pallas. ISBN 978-3-7909-0284-6.
  • Gerald Steinacher, Nazis on the run. How Hitler's Henchmen Fled Justice. Oxford University Press 2011. ISBN 0-19-957686-6
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