Dieter Wisliceny

Dieter Wisliceny ( born January 13, 1911 in Regulowken, District of Borken forest in the district Angerburg, East Prussia, † May 4, 1948 in Bratislava ) was a German SS -Hauptsturmführer and 1940-1944 " Commissioner for Jewish Affairs " for Slovakia, Hungary and Greece.

WISLICENY is after his school days a started theology studies have canceled and have worked as a journalist. He joined the NSDAP in 1931 ( Mitgliedsnr. 672 774 ) and SA at. He joined in 1934 by the SA and the SS ( SS-Nr. 107 216 ) and was a member of the SD. From 1934 to 1937 he worked in Berlin, first as a consultant for Freemasons questions in the SD main office and from April 1937 to November 1937 he was head of the " Jewish Section " of the SD. Subsequently he worked until 1940 in Gdansk at SD. On a proposal of Adolf Eichmann, whom he knew well, he went in September 1940 as a representative of the Reich Security Main Office (Unit IV B 4: " Jewish Affairs ") with a German delegation to Bratislava, where he referred to as " specialist and consultant in Jewish affairs " for Slovak government worked. On February 6, 1943, sent WISLICENY together with Alois Brunner to Greece, where he headed the "Detail for Jewish Affairs " in Thessaloniki. Here, in the period from 14 March to 7 August 1943 in 19 Zugtransporten 43 850 Jews, ie 95 percent of the Jewish population of Salonika, deported, most of them in the concentration camp Auschwitz -Birkenau (see deportation of Jews from Salonika ). In the fall and winter of 1943 WISLICENY initiated a " Jewish Section " at the Commander of the Security Police and the SD in Athens, the Alfred Slawik belonged. On the day of the German occupation of Hungary, March 19, 1944 WISLICENY arrived in Budapest as a member of the " special forces Eichmann " that deporting over 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz from April to October 1944, which were there mostly gassed immediately.

WISLICENY was responsible for the deportation of Slovak, Greek ( 56,000 alone in Thessaloniki ) and Hungarian Jews to October 1944.

On May 12, 1945 WISLICENY was arrested near the Altausseer lake in Austria. During the Nuremberg Trials, he was an important witness for the prosecution. His statement, in which he provided details of his person, and manifested mainly to the deportation of Jews, 1961 was also used in the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem. After the Nuremberg trials WISLICENY was delivered to Czechoslovakia, where he was indicted, convicted, sentenced on February 27 and was executed on May 4, 1948 in Bratislava.