Helmut Knochen

Helmut Knochen
Knochen c. 1942
Born	14 March 1910 (1910-03-14) Magdeburg, Province of Saxony, German Empire
Died	April 4, 2003(2003-04-04) (aged 93) Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Criminal status	Deceased
Conviction(s)	British Military War crimes French Military War crimes
Criminal penalty	British Military Death; commuted to life imprisonment; further commuted to 21 years imprisonment French Military Death; commuted to life imprisonment
SS service
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Schutzstaffel
Years of service	1936–1945
Rank	SS-Standartenführer
Commands held	Security Police (Paris) Sicherheitspolizei Sicherheitsdienst

Helmut Herbert Christian Heinrich Knochen (March 14, 1910 – April 4, 2003) was the senior commander of the Sicherheitspolizei (Security Police) and Sicherheitsdienst in Paris during the Nazi occupation of France in World War II. He was sentenced to death first by a British military court in 1947, and then a French military court in 1954. After his sentences were commuted and reduced a few times, he was pardoned by President de Gaulle and released in 1962.^[1]