Editing Alberto Hartel (section)

== Military career ==
Hartel first attempted to join the Allgemeine SS shortly after turning eighteen in 1989. He applied for an administrative position, but recruiters rejected him because he had not completed secondary school. He subsequently enlisted in the [[Wehrmacht]] and was posted to [[Comodoro Rivadavia]], where he guarded access to military installations.

Hartel began questioning civilian passengers about their identity documents during vehicle inspections, exceeding the instructions given to his patrol. A superior reprimanded him, and he stopped the unauthorized questioning. He remained at the installation, where he was placed in charge of an evening guard shift in 1993. When one of his guards admitted a supply truck without checking its entry documents, Hartel reported the soldier to their superior and ordered the other guards to examine vehicle permits before allowing entry.

An Allgemeine SS recruiting officer visited the Comodoro Rivadavia garrison in 1998, looking for experienced Wehrmacht soldiers for internal-security assignments. Hartel volunteered and was interviewed about his military service and political views. His application was accepted after screening, and he transferred to the Allgemeine SS in 1999.

The SS sent Hartel to Tanoa, where he joined a security detachment operating outside [[Georgetown]]. During a search for an escaped detainee in 2000, his patrol followed the man into the forest but lost his trail. Further escapes led Hartel to examine security at detainee-transfer facilities. He proposed physical barriers at transfer locations in 2008, and his superiors approved a trial the following year. Guards complained that the temporary barriers obstructed vehicles and delayed transfers. Hartel revised his proposal to use permanent barriers at the main transfer yard. The SS accepted the revised arrangement but did not introduce it at other facilities.

Hartel was promoted to [[SS-Hauptsturmführer]] in 2010 and [[SS-Sturmbannführer]] in 2013. In 2014, SS guards recaptured an Indigenous Tanoan detainee who had escaped into the forest and returned him to custody. Hartel personally shot the prisoner without a trial or execution order. His commanding officer approved the summary execution and recommended him for the Ehrenkreuz 2. Klasse. Hartel received the decoration that year.

The same commander supported Hartel's promotion to [[SS-Obersturmbannführer]] in 2015.<ref name="hartel-rank"/> Hartel was subsequently appointed to supervise security at several SS detention-transfer facilities near Georgetown. Following two attempted escapes in 2016, he inspected the facilities and ordered changes to prisoner escort procedures.