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Friedrich Christiansen who according to the article ordered the executions of the five Dutch hostages was not executed after the war:

From his Wikipedia entry:

From 29 May 1940 until 7 April 1945 Christiansen was Wehrmachtsbefehlshaber in den Niederlanden (Supreme Commander of the Wehrmacht in the Netherlands,) and from 10 November 1944 until 28 January 1945 supreme commander of the 25th Army.
After the war Christiansen was arrested for war crimes. On 2 October 1944 he had ordered a raid on the village of Putten in Gelderland, the Netherlands, in retaliation, after one of his officers, a Leutnant Sommers, was killed there by the Dutch resistance. When he heard about the actions of the resistance near Putten, Christiansen is reported to have said, „Das ganze Nest muss angesteckt werden und die ganze Bande an die Wand gestellt!” (”Put them all against the wall and burn the place down!”) In compliance with this retributive sentiment, several members of the civilian population were shot, the village was burned, and 661 of the males of the town were deported to labor camps, the vast majority of whom never returned.
Christiansen was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in 1948 in Arnhem for war crimes but was released in December 1951. He died in Aukrug in 1972.
His release from imprisonment in 1951 was an occasion for his native town, Wyk auf Föhr, to renew Christiansen’s honorary citizenship and reinstate a street name in honor of him, which had been changed by the British military administration in 1945. These honors sparked controversies in Germany and the Netherlands and they were revoked in 1980 by the town counsel.

August 14, 1942:

"The entire Jewish community from Gorlice, Poland, is deported to the Belzec extermination camp.
August 14-15: "A woman named Rivka Yosselevska is one of just four Jews to survive a bloody burial-pit massacre outside Zagrodski, Poland, near Pinsk."

"Swedish Prince Gustavus Adolphus visits Germany in 1942.
Swedish policy was mildly pro-German until February 1943, when the German advance in Russia was stopped at Stalingrad--a crucial turning point in World War II.
At that point, the Swedes and most Europeans felt that the Allies would win the war.
As a result, Sweden decided to accept Jewish refugees. In October 1943 the country opened its doors to roughly 10,000 Danish Jews."

August 15, 1942:

"The Germans open Jawiszowice, a slave-labor camp located near Auschwitz.
"One thousand Belgian Jews, including 172 children, are deported to their deaths in the East."

"Polish Jews in the Kremenets (Ukraine) Ghetto violently resisted the Nazi deportations.
On September 9, 1942, 1500 Jews, among them the ghetto's leadership, were transported to a ghetto five miles away. Incensed, a young Jew shot and killed six Germans and Ukrainians who were part of the "liquidation squad," forcing the Nazis temporarily to retreat.
The next day another ten Nazis were killed.
On August 11, rather than accept deportation and certain death, the remaining Jews set the ghetto on fire.
Among the buildings destroyed was the ghetto's synagogue, pictured here."

August 16, 1942:

Mid-August 1942: "A healthy Jewish teenage boy is removed from a deportation train at the Belzec death camp, stripped naked, hung upside down from gallows for three hours, and then killed as camp guards use sticks to force sand down his throat."

"Glimpsing freedom and safety ahead, Jewish refugees cross over the border into Switzerland.
Few were so fortunate as this group since the Swiss, citing their need to protect their neutrality, turned a cold shoulder toward most refugees, especially Jews.
One official referred to his country as a "crowded little lifeboat," and in 1942 the Swiss government instructed border officials to turn back refugees at the French border, essentially dealing death sentences to Jews."