Heinz Jost

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German SS functionary (1904–1964).

Heinz Jost (9 July 1904 – 12 November 1964) was a German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era. He was involved in espionage matters as the Sicherheitsdienst (Security Service; SD) section chief of office VI (foreign intelligence) of the Reich Security Main Office. Jost was responsible for genocidal massacres in Eastern Europe as commander of Einsatzgruppe A from March to September 1942. After Germany's defeat, Jost was tried and convicted by a U.S. military court at the Einsatzgruppen trial. In December 1951, Jost was released from Landsberg Prison after his sentence was commuted to ten years and died in 1964.

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