Between February and June 1941 Beckerle was given time off, in order to prepare for its new task as a SA envoy in the Bulgarian Sofia, which it to 17. June began.

Here Beckerle made itself jointly guilty, at the Deportation of approximately 12,000 Jews from the areas Macedonia and Thrazien after Auschwitz and Treblinka.

After the invasion of the Red Army in September 1944 Beckerle was arrested and kidnapped to Moscow. Here he was condemned before a court to an imprisonment by 25 years. The suspicion that Beckerle was to be classified as “mainguilty”, it confirmed to 22. March 1950 also the central arbitration board Hessen.

1951 committed Beckerles woman from shame to be married with a war criminal Suizid. Their man became in October 1955 into the FRG to dismiss prematurely.

Twice the German authorities procedures exerted against Beckerle. 1967 could the accused prove that he was busy at a company as an attorney, and thus try to lead a conventional life and as a 1 year later, 1968 were again tried to negotiate the Deportation of the Macedonian Jews the procedure were therefore adjusted, since Beckerle became ill and thus process unable.


Adolf Beckerle belonged to the group of higher SA leaders, that were used after the criticism of Hitler to the German career diplomat active in the Balkans countries as diplomat. Although even no Antisemit, he did not oppose anything to the resistance of the Bulgarian population at the Holocaust.