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

Alois Brunner was a key operative of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann and was responsible for the deportation of Jewish people from Austria (47,000), Greece (44,000), France (23,500), and Slovakia (14,000) to Nazi death camps during the Holocaust.

2017年1月11日 · Brunner is accused of deporting more than 128,000 Jews to death camps. He was in charge of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris where Jews rounded up in France were held...

2017年12月6日 · In 1943 Alois Brunner was appointed as the commander of Drancy internment camp near Paris. It was the staging ground for the deportation of more than 75,000 French Jews, mostly to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps. Only 2,500 of them survived.

From 1941 onwards, Brunner organised the deportations of Viennese Jews to the sites of Nazi genocide, first as Adolf Eichmann’s right-hand man, later as his successor as Head of the Central Office. On 9 October 1942 he reported that Vienna was “free of Jews”.

2014年12月1日 · Brunner, who was the top aide to "Final Solution" architect Adolf Eichmann, is thought to have died four years ago in Syria, where he lived for decades after sending nearly...

2014年12月1日 · The chief investigator pursuing Alois Brunner, one of the world's most wanted German Nazi war criminals, has told the BBC that he is "99% sure" that he died four years ago in Syria.

2024年10月1日 · Alois Brunner was one of the most feared and ruthless Nazi war criminals during the Holocaust. As a senior SS officer and a close associate of Adolf Eichmann, Brunner played a pivotal role in the deportation of tens of thousands of …

Alois Brunner was born on April 8, 1912, in Rohrbrunn, Austria. He joined the Nazi Party in 1931, and the SS in 1938. He worked as Adolf Eichmann's secretary in Vienna and was in charge of the registration and deportation of Austrian Jews to the East.

2025年1月8日 · Torture in Syria has a nasty origin. At its core, Alois Brunner, the “Butcher of Salonica”, a Nazi SS officer who escaped to Damascus. His story, what there is of it, has been pieced together ...