Kurt Eberhard (12 September 1874 – 8 September 1947) was a

German Nazi Nazi Germany (lit. "National Socialist State"), ' (lit. "Nazi State") for short; also ' (lit. "National Socialist Germany") (officially known as the German Reich from 1933 until 1943, and the Greater German Reich from 1943 to 1945) was ...

officer. He rose to the rank of ''

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'' of the SS and in the German army. During

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, Eberhard was given the command over the occupied city of

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. He was involved in planning and supervising the

Babi Yar Babi Yar (russian: Ба́бий Яр) or Babyn Yar ( uk, Бабин Яр) is a ravine in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. T ...

massacres during which over 33,771 people were murdered. He was captured by US authorities after the end of World War II, in November 1945, and kept in captivity in Stuttgart. He committed suicide in a prison in Stuttgart on 8 September 1947.

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