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<div>{{Short description|German SS officer (1911-2000)}}<br />
{{Expand German|Theo Saevecke|date=December 2022}}<br />
{{Infobox military person<br />
|name= Theo Saevecke<br />
|birth_name=<br />
|birth_date={{birth date|1911|3|22|df=y}}<br />
|birth_place=[[Hamburg, Germany]]<br />
|death_date={{death date and age|2000|12|16|1911|3|22|df=y}}<br />
|death_place=[[Hamburg, Germany]]<br />
|image = File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-B0221-0056-001, Theo Saevecke.jpg<br />
|caption= <br />
|allegiance={{flag|Nazi Germany}}<br />
|branch=[[File:Flag Schutzstaffel.svg|23px]] [[Schutzstaffel|SS]]: [[Sicherheitsdienst]], [[Einsatzgruppe]]; [[Gestapo]] <br />
|serviceyears=1938—1945<br />
|rank=[[Hauptsturmführer]]<br />
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}}<br />
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'''Theodor Emil Saevecke''' ({{birth date|1911|3|22|df=y}}–{{death date|2000|12|16|df=y}}) was an SS officer and perpetrator of the [[Holocaust in Poland]] and the [[Holocaust in Italy]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
In 1926, he was a member of the ''[[Freikorps]]'', fighting against both the [[Weimar Republic]] and communists. On 1 February 1929, Saevecke became a member of the [[NSDAP]] (Nazi Party) (member 112,407). In 1938 he became a member of the ''[[Schutzstaffel]]'' (SS) (member 396,401). After the war in Europe started, he was a member of the mobile SS [[death squad]], ''[[Einsatzgruppen]]'' IV in Poland through 1940. Later he was promoted to the rank of SS-''[[Hauptsturmführer]]'' and served in the SS-''[[Sicherheitsdienst]]'' (SD; Security Service) in Libya and Tunisia between 1942–1943, under [[Walter Rauff]]. Between 1943–1945, Saevecke was head of the [[Gestapo]] and the Italian fascist police in [[Milan]]. During his time he was responsible for the deportation of at least 700 Italian Jews to extermination camps.<ref name="Saevecke" /><br />
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After the war, in 1962, while a ''Kriminalrat'' at ''Sicherungsgruppe'' Bonn, he led a police raid on the [[Spiegel scandal]]. From 1947 on he worked for the CIA. The responsibility for his case was moved from American to British side and back and he was never accused of anything. A group of historians therefore concluded, he was under protection of American intelligence service by then (T. Naftali: The CIA and Eichmann’s Associates. 2005, p.&nbsp;356).<br />
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Protected through his connections in post-war Germany, Saevecke was sentenced in absentia in [[Turin]] in 1999 to life imprisonment for his involvement in the execution of hostages in Milan in August 1944 but never extradited to Italy.<ref name="Saevecke" >{{cite web |url=https://www.gedenkorte-europa.eu/content/article/581/-/ |title=Saevecke, Theo (1911–2000) |publisher=Gedenkorte Europa 1939–1945 |access-date=11 September 2018 |language=de }}</ref><br />
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Saevecke died on 16 December 2000.<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*{{cite book|author=Richard Breitman|author-link=Richard Breitman|title=U.S. Intelligence and the Nazis|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GnkBYN8ipYcC&pg=PA359|date=4 April 2005|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-61794-9|pages=359}}<br />
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File:CIA Saevecke 8. Januar 1953 Seite 1.jpg|CIA report on Saevecke January 8, 1953<br />
File:CIA Saevecke 8. Januar 1953 Seite 2.jpg|CIA report on Saevecke January 8, 1953<br />
File:CIA Saevecke 8. Januar 1953 Seite 3.jpg|CIA report on Saevecke January 8, 1953<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[http://www.foia.cia.gov/document/519bdecc993294098d51418f Saevecke's CIA file]<br />
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