Hans Georg Calmeyer

Hans Georg Calmeyer (; 23 June 1903 – 3 September 1972) was a German lawyer from Osnabrück who saved thousands of Jews from certain death during the German occupation of the Netherlands from 1941 until 1945. On 4 March 1992, Yad Vashem recognised Hans Calmeyer as Righteous Among the Nations.

In 2020, Yad Vashem historians began researching newly uncovered evidence suggesting that Calmeyer also helped send hundreds of people directly into death camps during the Dutch occupation. It is generally accepted that Calmeyer would "sacrifice" some people to save others. His actions risked drawing attention from his superiors. After the war, Willy Lages, the German police chief in Amsterdam, remarked that "to him Calmeyer's activities had always been a book with seven seals."

Calmeyer saved the lives of at least 3,000 people, but was simultaneously responsible for sending 500 others to death camps. During an interview in 1967, he admitted to knowing about the Final Solution, and that the rejecting of an appeal was effectively a death sentence. He said the decisions haunted him at night, and having to decide over life and death made him feel like a murderer. Provided by Wikipedia