Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/August Meyszner

August Meyszner

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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 24, 2018 by Jimfbleak - talk to me?  16:35, 16 December 2017 (UTC)



August Meyszner (3 August 1886 – 24 January 1947) was an Austrian gendarmerie officer, right-wing politician, and senior Ordnungspolizei (order police) officer of Nazi Germany who held the post of Higher SS and Police Leader in the German-occupied territory of Serbia from January 1942 to March 1944, during World War II. During his tenure, he oversaw regular reprisal killings and sent tens of thousands of forced labourers to Germany and occupied Norway. His Gestapo detachment also used a gas van to kill as many as 8,000 Jewish women and children who had been detained at the Sajmište concentration camp. Meyszner's time in Belgrade was characterised by friction and competition with German military, economic and foreign affairs officials, and by his visceral hatred and distrust of Serbs; he was considered one of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's most brutal subordinates. Extradited by the Allies to Yugoslavia after the end of the war, he was found guilty of war crimes by a military court, and was executed by hanging on 24 January 1947.
 * Most recent similar article(s): The Recent TFAs page hasn't been updated since August, so I haven't done this.
 * Main editors: Peacemaker67
 * Promoted: March 10, 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: Anniversary of Meyszner's execution for war crimes. Has a page on both Serbian and German WP.
 * Support as nominator. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 03:28, 6 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Support: A vile human being, but it's important to remember that such people exist. Praemonitus (talk) 16:43, 1 December 2017 (UTC)