|First World War||Second World War||The Cold War| Oberg worked
for a tropical-fruit trading company before enduring a long
period of unemployment. In 1930 he acquired a tobacco stand in
Hamburg. In 1938 Oberg was given command of an SS
(Schutzstaffel) battalion in Mecklenburg. The following year he
became chief of police in Zwickau. On the outbreak of the Second
World War Oberg went to Poland and became SS and Police Leader
in the Radom district where he was responsible for rounding up
Jews and the drafting of Poles for forced labour. In March 1942,
Oberg was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer and two months later was
posted to Paris where he became SS and Police Leader in occupied
France. In this position he brought in severe measures to deal
with the French Resistance including the shooting of hostages.
Oberg was also responsible for applying the Final Solution in
France. This action resulted in 75,000 Jews being deported from
France to extermination camp in Nazi Germany and Poland. Oberg
was promoted to SS-Oberg