Otto Rasch
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SS-Gruppenführer Otto Rasch (7 December 1891 – 1 November 1948 Wehrstedt) was a high-ranking Nazi official in the occupied Eastern territories, commanding Einsatzgruppe C (northern and central Ukraine) until October 1941. As a commanding officer, he was a Holocaust perpetrator and mass murderer.
Rasch was born in Friedrichsruh, northern Germany. With two university doctorates, Rasch was known as "Dr Dr Rasch", in accordance with German academic tradition. He organized the creation of the Soldau concentration camp. Rasch was indicted at the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1948 but died later that year.
In fiction
- Dr. Dr. Rasch appears in Jonathan Littell's docudrama "Les Bienveillantes". He files a record that the military should concentrate on fighting bolshevism which should not be identified with Jews.
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