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ERNST WILHELM BOHLE
(28 July 1903 – 9 November 1960) was the leader of the Foreign Organization of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP; Nazi Party) from 1933 until 1945.
Bohle surrendered to US forces on 23 May 1945 at Falkenau and was interned with other high ranking Nazi officials. Bohle was tried as a defendant in the “Ministries Trial” (“Wilhelmstraßen-Prozeß”), one of the Nuremberg follow-up trials. He was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on 11 April 1949. However, he was pardoned by U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy on 21 December 1949. Subsequent to his release, he worked as a merchant in Hamburg
accused of assisting Hess in writing a letter in English to the Duke of Hamilton, but cleared himself by claiming that he believed Hess had Hitler’s authority.
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