Ghislaine Maxwell’s Father War Crimes: When notorious media mogul Robert Maxwell died in 1991 in the sea off Spain, he was facing war crimes allegations from WW2.
Just when you thought the disgraced publisher couldn’t get any more repulsive, records from 2006 revealed an investigation was underway into his conduct as a British Army captain.
Ghislaine Maxwell’s Father War Crimes
In summary:
- In 1991, Ghislaine Maxwell’s father was accused of war crimes
- One allegation concerning Maxwell senior was about the murder of an unarmed German mayor, plus reports other unarmed civilians were murdered
- Robert Maxwell’s death is still shrouded in mystery and some believe that it may have been murder
- He stole money from the Mirror Group pension fund that he had set up for his employees

Ghislaine Maxwell’s Father “War Crimes”
An investigation by The Independent revealed Maxwell was alleged to have shot an unarmed mayor of a German town.
It said in 1991, Maxwell knew he faced a life sentence “for murdering an unarmed German civilian lent support to the theory that he took his own life in 1991.”
The revelation was obtained under British Freedom of Information documents obtained by the newspaper. It was another of Maxwell Senior’s scandals.
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Ghislaine Maxwell’s Father War Crimes
“A Metropolitan Police file released to The Independent under the Freedom of Information Act shows that, weeks before he died, detectives had begun questioning members of Maxwell’s platoon and were preparing a case for the Crown Prosecution Service,” a report by The Independent said.
Maxwell was alleged to have killed an unarmed German civilian. The shooting, which is said to have happened on 2 April 1945, was first disclosed by Maxwell’s authorised biographer, Joe Haines, in 1988.
It was something Maxwell was proud of and spoke openly about
In the Haines book, Maxwell was quoted as describing how he tried to capture a German town by threatening the population with a mortar bombardment, a tactic that had proved successful on a nearby village hours earlier.
According to The Independent: ”In a letter to his wife…Maxwell recounts how he asked some Germans to fetch (a) mayor. He ordered the mayor to go back to town and tell the soldiers defending it to surrender or face destruction. One hour later the mayor returned, saying the soldiers had agreed to his demands.
“But as soon as we marched off a German tank opened fire on us,” Maxwell wrote. “Luckily, he missed, so I shot the mayor and withdrew.”
But John Preston in his book Fall reported a former army associate of Maxwell maintained the he killed more than one civilian that day.

But we will never know the truth because Maxwell died before the claims were investigated.
Was Maxwell a Psychopath
“I came across Donald Trump many years ago. Only in those days his name was Robert Maxwell and he lived in London,” wrote Paul Catmur, the chief executive of Barnes Catmur & Friends Dentsu on a news site.
Catmur called Maxwell ”the Donald Trump of Headington Hall.”
The writer Tanya Gold also believed he was a paychopath.
“He was a killer. As a British soldier, he shot German civilians — he shot a mayor in the head in the town square — and German soldiers trying to surrender. (He could not understand why other British soldiers objected.) He robbed their corpses,” she wrote.
Here is an academic study on Maxwell & psychopathy.
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