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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.
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.
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, Eichmann's assistant and Commander of Drancy internment camp, was one of the key figures in implementing the Final Solution. Was pursued by the Israeli intelligence agency, Mossad, in Syria, evaded capture until his death around 2001 in Damascus.
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 ...
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 (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 ...
Christiane Brunner (born 1947), Swiss politician and advocate; Conrad Brunner (died 1410), Swiss Benedictine abbott; Constantin Brunner, the pen-name of German philosopher Leopold Wertheimer; Damien Brunner (born 1986), Swiss ice hockey player; David Brunner (1835–1903), a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania