Kurt Leibbrand
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German engineer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Kurt Gustav Adolf Max Leibbrand was a German civil engineer, professor, and consultant transport engineer. In July 1961, he was arrested and charged with murder for the deaths of 26 unarmed Italian volunteers who were shot during the German retreat from France in August 1944, allegedly on the regimental orders he issued. Although the court only found him culpable for manslaughter, he was not sentenced because the manslaughter verdict was time-barred. His arrest lead to his resignation as a professor of railway and transport engineering at the Technical University of Zurich and the end of his academic career in the German-speaking world.
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