Kurt Eberhard (12 September 1874 – 8 September 1947) was a German Nazi officer. He rose to the rank of ''

Brigadeführer ''Brigadeführer'' (, ) was a paramilitary rank of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) that was used between 1932 and 1945. It was mainly known for its use as an SS rank. As an SA rank, it was used after briefly being known as '' Untergruppenführer'' in ...

'' in the SS and in the

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. 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 () or Babyn Yar () is a ravine in the Ukraine, Ukrainian capital Kyiv and a site of massacres carried out by Nazi Germany's forces during Eastern Front (World War II), its campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and ...

massacres during which over 33,771 people were murdered. Eberhard was captured by U.S. authorities in November 1945, and detained in

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. He killed himself in custody on 8 September 1947.

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