Boļeslavs Maikovskis
1904–1996 (age 92)
Biography
Boļeslavs Maikovskis (21 January 1904 – 19 April 1996) was a Latvian police officer and Nazi collaborator.
In World War II, Maikovskis served as the chief of the 2nd police precinct of Rēzekne during the German occupation of Latvia. Maikovskis directed the execution of Latvian Jews, gypsies, and communists, and was awarded the Iron Cross for service to the Reichskommissariat Ostland. After the war, Maikovskis emigrated to the United States in 1951. Requests to extradite him to Latvia to face criminal charges were refused by the U.S. government. In 1965, he was tried in absentia, was convicted of murder, and sentenced to death.
Despite his death sentence, in the U.S., Maikovskis served on a subcommittee of the Committee to Re-elect the President during Nixon's 1972 campaign. Later, he fled to West Germany where he was prosecuted for war crimes; however, charges were dropped due to his ill health, and Maikovskis died of natural causes in Germany, aged 92 years, 31 years after being sentenced to death.