Editing Arthur Nebe (section)

===President of Interpol and Stalag Luft III murders===

Following the [[Operation Anthropoid|1942 assassination of Heydrich]], Nebe assumed the additional post of President of the International Criminal Police Commission, the organization today known as [[Interpol#History|Interpol]], in June 1942. After the ''[[Anschluss]]'' in 1938, the organization had fallen under the control of [[Nazi Germany]] and was headed by Heydrich until his death. Nebe served in this capacity until January 1943, when he was replaced by [[Ernst Kaltenbrunner]].{{sfn|Miller|2015|pp=393, 396}}

In March 1944, after the [[Stalag Luft III#The "Great_Escape" (1944)|"Great Escape"]] from [[Stalag Luft III]] prisoner-of-war camp, Nebe was ordered by [[Heinrich Müller (Gestapo)|Heinrich Müller]], Chief of the [[Gestapo]], to select and kill 50 of the 73 recaptured prisoners in what became known as the "[[Stalag Luft III murders]]".{{sfn|Andrews|1976|p=67}} Also in 1944, Nebe suggested that the Roma interned at [[Auschwitz]] would be good subjects for medical experiments at the [[Dachau concentration camp]], after Himmler had asked [[Ernst-Robert Grawitz]], a high-ranking SS physician, for advice.{{sfn|Lewy|2000|pp=204–208}}