Although he died last year, German police have only now confirmed
that he was buried in the Ruhr city of Hagen after dieing
peacefully, aged 93, at home.
Bikker, a member of the Waffen SS, became infamous as De Beul van Ommen for his
cruelty while serving as a prison guard at the Erika concentration
camp, in the Dutch province of Overijssel.
He also served in an elite SS regiment on the Eastern Front and took part in
Nazi punishment raids in the Netherlands.
After the war, Bikker was sentenced to death the murder of the Dutch resistance
fighter Jan Houtman in November 1944, during an SS raid.
His sentence was commuted to life-long
imprisonment without parole but in 1952 he escaped from a
jail in Breda with six other war criminals and fled to Germany.
As a former Waffen-SS soldier, Bikker
became a naturalised German citizen and could not be extradited
to the Netherlands after he was finally tracked down in 1995.
A new German trial for the Houtman
murder was abandoned after five months in February 2004 when
Bikker was judged mentally incapable of understanding the
judicial proceedings against him.
Bikker lived in the Ruhr city of Hagen
as a pensioner until his death in November last year, which
was not made public until Dutch press reports on Wednesday.
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