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Alois Brunner was born on 8 April 1912 in the town of Vas, Austria-Hungary (now Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), the son of Joseph Brunner and Ann Kruise. He joined the Nazi Party at the age of sixteen and the Sturmabteilung (SA) a year later. In 1933, Brunner moved to Germany where he joined the Nazi paramilitary group Austrian Legion. [4]
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.
Erich Priebke (29 July 1913 – 11 October 2013) was a German mid-level SS commander in the SS police force (SiPo) of Nazi Germany. [1] In 1996, he was convicted of war crimes in Italy for commanding the unit which was responsible for the Ardeatine massacre in Rome on 24 March 1944 in which 335 Italian civilians were killed in retaliation for a partisan attack that killed 33 men of the German ...
He evaded capture until his accidental death in Brazil in 1979; his remains were identified in 1985. Erich Priebke, an SS officer responsible for the mass murder of Italian civilians, was interviewed openly in Argentina in 1994, by ABC Primetime Live host Sam Donaldson. He was subsequently extradited to Italy and, in 1998, sentenced to house ...
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.
Regarding Brunner's date of death, the information from the German intelligence agency that he died in 2010 is most likely the same as that which was reported to the Simon Wiesenthal Center by the former German secret service agent, whose evidence found that Brunner was only buried in 2010, not necessarily that he died then. It was only later ...
Schapira is co-author of The Act of Alois Brunner, and producer of two award-winning documentaries, Drei Kugeln und ein totes Kind ("Three bullets and a dead child") (2002), about the death of Muhammad al-Durrah in Gaza in 2000, and Der Tag, als Theo van Gogh ermordet wurde ("The day Theo van Gogh was murdered") (2007), about the killing in ...
Alois Brunner (1912–2001), Austrian Nazi SS concentration camp war criminal; Alois Carigiet (1902–1985), Swiss illustrator; Alois Dryák (1872–1932), Czech architect; Alois Eliáš (1890–1942), Czech general and politician; Alois Estermann, senior officer of the Pontifical Swiss Guard who was murdered in his apartment; Alois Hába ...