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  Alois Brunner
SS-Hauptsturmfuhrer Alois Brunner was born in Austria in 1912 and joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1931 at the age of 19.
Brunner was already sentenced to death in absentia in France in 1953 and 1954; more recently, a new suit was filed there based on his sending children to Auschwitz.
In 2000, rumors were circulating that Poland was preparing to seek the extradition of Alois Brunner.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Holocaust/Brunner.html   (637 words)

  
 Alois Brunner
SS Hauptsturmführer Alois Brunner - the last leading Nazi still believed to be on the loose and Eichmann's second in command - was a key figure in the planning and execution of the Final Solution, the murder of 6 million Jews during World War II.
Alois Brunner bears direct responsibility for the deportation to Nazi death camps of 128,500 Jewish men, women and children from Austria, Greece, France, and Slovakia.
After WW2 Alois Brunner found gainful employment courtesy of the CIA and later he escaped to Syria where he became a government adviser.
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 Alois Brunner
The arrest and conviction of Alois Brunner remains the top priority of leading Nazi hunters and war investigators but Brunner has successfully eluded justice.
Alois Brunner was born in Austria in 1912 and joined the Austrian Nazi Party in 1931 at the age of 19.
German journalists visiting Syria in 1999 said Brunner was living at the Meridian Hotel in Damascus under police protection.
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 Alois Brunner - The Searches   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brunner's whereabouts were initially traced in Syria by the man in charge of the Office of Locating War Criminals, Dr. Simon Wisental, while a score of evidence was also provided by French lawyer Serge Klarsfeld, who is intent on finding Brunner since his father was among the lieutenant's victims.
The reason that Brunner remains free could perhaps be that the war criminal was a member of the "Ghelen Organization" which was founded by Hitler's General Reinhart Ghelen and was joined by officers from the German secret services, who in turn formed the nucleus of Germany's official information agency BND in 1955.
Brunner's daughter, Irena Ratheimer, who is married to an Austrian parliamentarian, claims that her father is dead.
www.hri.org /MPA/other/brunner/en_search.html   (501 words)

  
 Alois Brunner: The Last Nazi
Alois Brunner was a notorious Nazi war criminal having been responsible for sending more than 128,500 European Jews to death camps all across Europe.
SS Hauptsurmfuhrer Alois Brunner had been living in Syria advising the various governments in Damascus on intelligence matters since 1959.
Brunner in absentia in 1954 of crimes against humanity and condemned him to death for his role in deporting 120,000 Jews to death camps during World War II.
www.brandeis.edu /jewishfilm/Catalogue/films/lastnazi.htm   (134 words)

  
 Trial Watch : Alois Brunner   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Alois Brunner was born on 8 April 1912 in Rohrbrunn, a village situated in the Hungarian part of the then Austrian-Hungarian monarchy.
Alois Brunner was last seen in October 1992 in Damaskus, when he left his house in an ambulance.
Several sources claim that Brunner is dead and buried in a christian cemetery in Damascus.
www.trial-ch.org /en/trial-watch/profile/db/facts/alois_brunner_566.html   (613 words)

  
 Barbie and Brunner
Klaus Barbie was born in Bad Godesberg, near Bonn, October 25, 1913.
After WW2 Alois Brunner found gainful employment courtesy of Reinhard Gehlen and the CIA.
In 2000 rumours were circulating that Poland was preparing to seek the extradition of Alois Brunner.
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 Eichmann aide to be tried for war crimes
Brunner, 86, who was condemned to death in absentia by two French courts in 1954, is believed to be in Syria, which has so far refused to acknowledge his presence there or to allow French magistrates and police access to his supposed hideaway.
The case against Brunner is in the hands of Hervé Stéphan, the magistrate responsible for the inquiry into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
France-Soir said yesterday that he is expected to close the 11-year Brunner investigation soon and hand it over to the public prosecutor, recommending that the trial be held next year.
www.telegraph.co.uk /htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1998/06/25/weich25.html   (450 words)

  
 Brunner and von Bolschwing Blowback America's recruitment of Nazis, and its disastrous effect on our domestic and ...
Instead of facing trial, however, Brunner was in Damascus, Syria, where he had become Gehlen's "resident"-a post similar in authority to the CIA chief of station-shortly after the contract for the Org had been picked up by the Americans in 1946, keeping him safe from the French.
The story of U.S. intelligence relations with criminals such as Brunner is of necessity fragmentary, for both the CIA and Brunner himself have taken extensive measures to keep such affairs hidden.
It is clear, however, that Brunner was not an exception to the rule who managed to ingratiate himself with the Americans through guile or through an oversight.
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 Alois Brunner Summary
SS (Schutzstaffel) Captain Alois Brunner served Adolf Eichmann in organizing the Nazi destruction of European Jews.
Brunner was imprisoned by the Allies, but, using a false name, he got released.
By a conservative estimate, Brunner deported 47,000 from Austria, 44,000 from Greece, 23,500 from France, and 14,000 from Slovakia.
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 Alois Brunner Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Then, in October 1939, Brunner organized the first transports to Poland, a pilot project for mass deportation of Jews to ghettoes and death camps in the East.
Brunner proved his worth to Eichmann, who posted him next to Salonica, Greece, the center of Sephardic Jewish culture in Europe.
Warrants for Brunner's arrest and requests to Syria for his extradition were on the books in Germany, Austria, and elsewhere for many years.
www.bookrags.com /biography/alois-brunner   (671 words)

  
 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Alois Brunner (born April 8 1912 in Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, reports of death contested) is an Austrian Nazi war criminal who was Adolf Eichmann's assistant.
Brunner lost an eye and several fingers from letter bombs sent to him years ago by Israel's intelligence service, Mossad.
Brazilian police are investigating whether a suspect living in the country under an assumed name is actually Alois Brunner.
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 Shofar FTP Archives: people/b//brunner.alois/press/Reuters.000118
Brunner, dubbed the right hand-man of senior SS officer Adolf Eichman, who was executed in Israel in 1962, is believed to be the highest-ranking Nazi official still unprosecuted.
Brunner, now 87, was sentenced to death in absentia by French courts in 1953 and 1954 for heading a transit camp in the French town of Drancy, from where he deported about 60,000 Jews to the Auschwitz-Birkenau's gas chambers.
Brunner is due to face trial again soon in France for crimes against humanity, although no date has been set.
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Brazilian police are checking suspicions that the world's living most wanted Nazi war criminal, Alois Brunner, is hiding in the country, according to the Haaretz newspaper.
Brunner, 95, was deputy to Adolf Eichmann, and aided the carrying out of the "Final Solution." He is responsible for sending at least 130,000 Jews, many of them from France, to Nazi death camps.
During his time in Syria, Brunner was injured twice, in 1961, and in 1980, by letter bombs sent by the Mossad.
www.ynetnews.com /articles/0,7340,L-3181918,00.html   (362 words)

  
 CNN.com - France jails absent Nazi officer - March 2, 2001
Alois Brunner, believed to be hiding in Syria, was found guilty of arresting and deporting 345 Jewish children from France to Auschwitz death camp in German-occupied Poland in 1944.
The protesters also held up photographs of some of the 345 children that Brunner, who was deputy to the Gestapo "technician of death" Adolf Eichmann, sent on the last convoy to leave France for the World War II death camps.
Klarsfeld, who started court action against Brunner in 1987, has travelled several times to Damascus to demand that Brunner be handed over.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/france/03/02/brunner.trial/index.html   (469 words)

  
 Alois Brunner: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The person who had been trying to find Nazi criminals for half a lifetime was almost the same age as Alois Brunner, the man who had become my great-uncle in 1985 when the "family phantom," as I later called him, appeared on a German tabloid cover.
Alois Brunner and many other Nazi perpetrators, meanwhile, might have died as well, but their guilt must stay unforgotten.
The writer is a great-niece of Alois Brunner and works as a political scientist at the University of Vienna and the Humboldt University of Berlin.
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Brunner_Alois_840724774.htm   (423 words)

  
 Int'l hunt on for top Nazi fugitive   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A deputy to Eichmann, Brunner assisted in implementing the Final Solution and is held directly responsible for the deaths of at least 130,000 Jews.
If caught, Brunner would be extradited to France where he was sentenced in absentia in 2001 to life in prison on charges of crimes against humanity in a trial that reportedly lasted only several hours.
Brunner was wounded twice by letter bombs sent to him - reportedly by the Mossad - during the 40 years he spent in Syria.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1549003/posts   (2103 words)

  
 RNN / Greece says Alois Brunner is hiding in Syria   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Greece says it has evidence that Alois Brunner, the world’s most-wanted Nazi war criminal, is hiding in Syria.
But reppas said Tuesday that even though Brunner is implicated in many of those deaths, Greece could not request Brunner’s extradition because it transferred its extradition rights to Germany in 1959.
Brunner is wanted by Austria, France, Israel, the former Czechoslovakia and Germany, where a $345.000 reward has been posted for his capture.
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 Classical Values :: Final tribute, and unfinished business
Brunner is blamed for the deaths of thousands of French Jews.
I want to do so not only as a relative of one of the criminals he was trying to bring to justice, but also as an Austrian citizen who had often wondered why it was he and not official bodies that were occupied with such cases.
The great-niece of Nazi War Criminal Alois Brunner writes about her meeting with, and death of, Simon Weisenthal:...Maybe some readers feel uncomfortable about a great-niece of Alois Brunner writing in an Israeli newspaper on the occasion of Simon Wie...
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 2007 Vancouver International Jewish Film Festival
Brunner is responsible for the deaths of more than 128,000 European Jews, and 200 Americans, whom he sent to death camps all across Europe during World War II.
Alois Brunner has been living in Syria since 1959, where he has been advising the various governments in Damascus on intelligence matters.
Alois Brunner: The Last Nazi tells the story of how Alois Brunner escaped justice, who protected him, and why.
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 CNN.com - Nazi officer Brunner tried in absentia - March 2, 2001
PARIS, France -- Former Nazi officer, Alois Brunner, will stand trial in absentia in Paris on Friday for sending Jewish children to Auschwitz death camps.
Brunner is held responsible for sending 140,000 Jews from across Europe to the gas chambers, including close to 24,000 from France.
The court is expected to give Brunner the maximum sentence, life in prison, after reading out a list of his crimes and the names of his victims.
archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/france/03/02/france.brunner/index.html   (389 words)

  
 American Public Television
Alois Brunner, deputy to mastermind Adolf Eichmann, is the most notorious Nazi war criminal who may still be alive today.
Unlike Eichmann, Brunner was never caught and made to pay for his crimes against humanity.
Brunner is responsible for the deaths of more than 128,000 European Jews and 200 Americans, whom he sent to death camps all across Europe during World War II.
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 Adolf Eichmann & Alois Brunner - Hitler's Third Reich and World War Two   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Brazilian police are investigating whether a suspect living in the country under an assumed name is the most-wanted Nazi criminal, Alois Brunner.
The Austrian-born Brunner is believed to have spent the past 40 years in Syria under the assumed name of Dr. Georg Fischer before moving to South America.
Tried in absentia, Brunner was right-hand man to the Gestapo's "technician of death" Adolf Eichmann.
hitlernews.cloudworth.com /adolf-eichmann-alois-brunner-gestapo.php   (1632 words)

  
 Alois Brunner
The last leading Nazi still believed to be on the loose
SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Alois Brunner - Eichmann's second in command - was a key figure in the planning and execution of the Final Solution, the murder of 6 million Jews during World War II.
Despite Syria's claims that he's either dead or gone, many believe the former SS Hauptsturmfuhrer is still there, well out of justice's reach as he lives comfortably into his ninth decade.
www.auschwitz.dk /Brunner   (246 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Alois Brunner": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
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Most notorious of these was Alois Brunner, an Austrian born in 1912.
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 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - Discussion: Speaking of Alois Brunner...
The most notable [Nazi war criminal STILL at large] may be Austrian-born Alois Brunner, who was Eichmann's right-hand man in Vienna and Prague in 1938-39 and who later implemented "The Final Solution of the Jewish Problem" in Bratislava, Paris and Greece.
Four years [Simon] Wiesenthal's junior, Brunner surfaced in Syria after the war as "Dr. Georg Fischer," serving as an adviser to Syrian government security services.
As late as the early 1990s, he was a consultant on Lebanese affairs and gave rabid interviews to German and Austrian journalists.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/76688/626436   (197 words)

  
 Solomonia: Hunting Alois Brunner, meeting the family
The great-niece of Nazi War Criminal Alois Brunner writes about her meeting with, and death of, Simon Weisenthal:
What he did was needed not only from a juridical and political point of view; his mere presence and intervention also constituted a most important contribution to public discourse and private concern...
Alois Brunner has been sheltered by Syria for years, where he lived or still lives.
www.solomonia.com /blog/archives/006622.shtml   (927 words)

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