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Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – December 2001 or 2010) was an Austrian officer who held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) during World War II. Brunner played a significant role in the implementation of the Holocaust through rounding up and deporting Jews in occupied Austria, Greece, France, and Slovakia.
Alois Brunner, the commandant of the Drancy camp, pressed by the advance of the allied troops after the Normandy landing on June 6, 1944 and helped by the confusion set off by the failed assassination attempt against Hitler on July 20, seized the opportunity to pursue his murderous folly.
Alois Brunner, although officially named as the leader of the Central Agency in Vienna in January 1941, was already the de facto chief after Eichmann left in 1939. [9] A complete list of personnel from the Central Agency in Vienna has not survived, but the following SS members were among the 17 to 20 co-workers under Alois Brunner: [10]
SS-Haupsturmfuhrer Alois Brunner, who played a significant role in the implementation of the Holocaust as the right-hand man of Adolf Eichmann, assisted al-Assad in organizing the Ba'athist secret police and trained them on Nazi Germany's torture practices. [41] [42] Such practices remained in use by 2021. [41]
Alois Brunner: April 8, 1912: December 2001 [3] or December 2010 [4] 89 or 98 Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; organised the deportations of at least 140,000 Jews from France, Greece, Slovakia and Austria. Commandant of the Drancy internment camp. Escaped to Egypt around 1954, then fled to Syria.
Drancy was under the control of the French police until 1943 when administration was taken over by the SS, which placed officer Alois Brunner in charge of the camp. In 2001, Brunner's case was brought before a French court by Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld, which sentenced Brunner in absentia to a life sentence for crimes against humanity. [3]
Alois Brunner, alleged to be an Org operative, was formerly responsible for the Drancy internment camp near Paris and linked to the murders of 140,000 Jews during the Holocaust. [14] According to Robert Wolfe , historian at the US National Archives , "US Army intelligence accepted Reinhard Gehlen's offer to furnish alleged expertise on the Red ...
IV B4 also had a large number of regional specialists who were deployed to various countries to assist with deportations - Anton Brunner, Dieter Wisliceny, Franz Abromeit, Siegfried Siedl, Hermann Krumey, Alois Brunner, Anton Burger, Theo Dannecker, and Hans Günther (who was the brother of Rolf Günther) being the principal figures. [8]