On 10th June 1944 Argyris Sfountouris (a song for Argyris) citizen of Distomon (a municipality in the Boeotia Prefecture, Greece) lost 33 members of his family.
Waffen SS troops of 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Lautenbach killed 218 men, women and children (Gestapo recorded all these attrocities????).
The SS Polizei Division troops were transferred from soviet union lines and involved in anti-partisan war in Balkans.
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Jürgen Wagner (19 April 1944–? May 1944)
Wagner was extradited to Yugoslavia in 1947, where he was put on trial for war crimes committed by troops under his command in 1941. He was found guilty and shot on 5 April 1947.
SS-Oberführer (Brigadier) Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock (? May 1944–7 May 1944)
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Hebert Ernst Vahl (7 May 1944–22 July 1944)
Vahl arrived to assume command of the Division on the 13 July 1944 but was killed in a motoring accident on the 22 July 1944
SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) Karl Schümers (22 July 1944–16 August 1944)
Karl Schümers commanded the execution of 280 unarmed women and children in the village of Kleisoura in Greece.
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Fritz Schmedes (22 August 1944–27 November 1944)
Waffen SS troops of 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division under the command of SS-Hauptsturmführer Fritz Lautenbach killed 218 men, women and children (Gestapo recorded all these attrocities????).
The SS Polizei Division troops were transferred from soviet union lines and involved in anti-partisan war in Balkans.
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Jürgen Wagner (19 April 1944–? May 1944)
Wagner was extradited to Yugoslavia in 1947, where he was put on trial for war crimes committed by troops under his command in 1941. He was found guilty and shot on 5 April 1947.
SS-Oberführer (Brigadier) Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock (? May 1944–7 May 1944)
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Hebert Ernst Vahl (7 May 1944–22 July 1944)
Vahl arrived to assume command of the Division on the 13 July 1944 but was killed in a motoring accident on the 22 July 1944
SS-Standartenführer (Colonel) Karl Schümers (22 July 1944–16 August 1944)
Karl Schümers commanded the execution of 280 unarmed women and children in the village of Kleisoura in Greece.
SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei Fritz Schmedes (22 August 1944–27 November 1944)