Which SS officer was nicknamed 'the Angel of Death'?
Angel of Death (Slayer song) Angel of Death (Slayer song) "Angel of Death" is the opening track on the American thrash metal band Slayer's 1986 album "Reign in Blood". The lyrics and music were written by guitarist Jeff Hanneman. They detail the Nazi physician Josef Mengele's human experiments at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. Although the lyrics describe Mengele's abuses rather than endorsing them, "Angel of Death" led to accusations of Nazi sympathizing and racism against the band, which they vigorously denied but which followed them throughout their early career. Despite the controversy and the resulting delay in the release of "Reign
Heinz Schubert (SS officer) death sentence against Schubert was converted into a prison sentence of ten years. In 1952 Schubert was released from prison. Heinz Schubert (SS officer) Heinz Hermann Schubert (27 August 1914, Berlin – 17 August 1987, Ahrensburg) was a German SS officer. He held the rank of "Obersturmführer (the equivalent of 1st Lieutenant)." He was sentenced to death at the Einsatzgruppen Trial in 1948, which was later commuted to 10 years imprisonment. Heinz Hermann Schubert was born in Berlin shortly after the outbreak of the First World War. He went to school in Eisenberg, Thuringia and then again in Berlin-Lichterfelde, where