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About Gustav Lombard
- Gustav Lombard (10 April 1895 – 18 September 1992) was a high-ranking member in the SS during World War II.
- During the war, Lombard commanded 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer and the 31st SS Volunteer Grenadier Division.
- He was a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany for so-called "anti-partisan" operations around Kovel which involved killing of civilians and burning down villages. Lombard perpetrated mass murder in the Holocaust, serving as commanding officer of the 1st Regiment of the SS Cavalry Brigade during the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
- Lombard was convicted of war crimes by a Soviet military tribunal in 1947 and was released in 1955.
- He was subsequently tried by a West German court in the 1960s and found not guilty.
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