Emil Haussmann a Einsatzgruppen murder.
Emil Haussmann (11 October 1910 – 31 July 1947 in Nuremberg) was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era. He was part of Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D, which perpetrated the Holocaust in occupied Ukraine. Haussmann was charged with crimes against humanity in 1947 in the Einsatzgruppen Trial. He committed suicide while in prison.
Emil Haussmann, born 11-10-1910 in Ravensburg, was the son of an accountant. Haussmann joined the NSDAP 
in January 1930[2] – three years before the Machtergreifung –Nazi seizure of power, at the age of 19. He was a grade school teacher. In 1937, he became a full-time employee of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), and took over the SD-Oberabschnitt Southwest, based in the Judenreferat in Stuttgart. 
During the Invasion of Poland, Haussmann was part of Einsatzgruppe VI, under commandbof SS-Oberführer Erich Naumann,.
There Haussmann was the “right hand man” for SS-Obersturmbannführer, Albert Rapp. 
Rapp died age 67 in 1975. Commanding this Einsatzgruppe was Erich Naumann, who later became a co-defendant of Haussmann. After the end of hostilities, Haussmann remained with Rapp in Poland; Rapp led the Umwandererzentralstelle in Posen. This office coordinated the expulsion of Poles, Ukrainians and Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland, Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia, East Upper Silesia and Aktion Zamość. 
Haussmann took part in Einsatzkommando 12 during the invasion of the Soviet Union. In 1947 he was one of 24 defendants at the Einsatzgruppen Trial. On 29 July 1947, he received the indictment along with his co-defendants: crimes against humanity, war crimes, and membership in a criminal organization. 
Chief Prosecutor Benjamin Ference 
Two days later on 31 July 1947 in Nuremberg, before the arraignment, Haussmann committed, age 46, suicide in his cell and was removed from the process. Thus, he was the only defendant at the Einsatzgruppen trial who escaped a sentence
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