- Robert Jan Verbelen
Robert Jan Verbelen (
April 5 ,1911 ,Herent ,Belgium – c. September 1990) was a Belgian Nazicollaborator . After the liberation ofBelgium in the Second World War, Verbelen fled throughGermany toAustria , where for eight years he worked for theCounter Intelligence Corps of the US Army, while he already was convicted aswar criminal in Belgium. He obtained Austriancitizenship in 1959. He was charged with five murders in a 1965war crime trial in Austria, but was acquitted of war crimes.During the last years of the War, Verbelen was head of the "De Vlag Veiligheidscorps", a Nazi SS security force in Belgium. In that function he assassinated
Alexandre Galopin , director of theSociété Générale de Belgique , and tried to murderAlbert Devèze ,Minister of State ,Charles Collard-de Sloovere ,Attorney General , and Robert De Foy, former State Security director. He was sentenced a death penalty by a Belgian court in 1947, who found him responsible for the deaths of 101 Belgian resistance fighters.External links
* [http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/publicdocs/11-1prior/crm22.pdf Robert Jan Verbelen and the United States Government: A Report to the Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division]
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