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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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: Born 08.04.1912, Rohrbrunn, Austria. Commandant of Drancy internment camp. Adolf Eichmann's assistant. Postwar alias Dr. Georg Fischer-resident in Syria. Alleged to have been member of West German BND. In 1989 the Syrian Government declined to extradite him to Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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 (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