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The Nazi war criminal, the infamous “Assassin of Thessaloniki” and responsible for the extermination of 130,000 Jews, Alois Bruner could be declared dead this summer, following the declaration of death now published by the Debenno District Court Alois Bruner to give signs of life by the end of August, otherwise he will be officially considered dead.
The death of the Nazi war criminal has been reported several times in recent years and now, with a court decision, procedures are underway to officially confirm the death of Bruner, who was born in 1912 in Rorbrunn in the state of Genersdorf. in the present day Austrian state of Borussia.
He himself was the “right hand man” of Adolf Eichmann, the organizer of the Holocaust, and is believed to have been responsible for the transfer and extermination of 130,000 Jews there in Nazi German concentration camps between 1939 and 1945, after they had managed to flee. to post-war Syria, where he is said to have lived for many years.
Bruner last appeared in 1999 and since then his death has been reported repeatedly, with 2009 and 2010 being the probable years of his death, while the last time, four years ago, a French magazine reported that he had already passed away in 2001.
According to the Austrian Interior Ministry, no further findings or observations have been made regarding Bruner since 1999, but he is still officially on the list of wanted Nazi war criminals.
The “invitation” of the District Court to “give signs of life” is probably the last chapter to finally close, after next August, the case of the wanted Nazi war criminal.
As early as December 2014, when the question of his possible death was raised, the Austrian Ministry of Justice announced that “as long as there is no certainty that Alois Bruner is dead, he will remain on the list of declared Nazi war criminals.” Reacting to Zuroff, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, he said: “Bruner already died in 2010 in Syria, where he has lived for decades.”
As Ephrem Zurov, then director of the Center named after Simon Wiesenthal, the “Nazi hunter” who died in Vienna in 2005, said at the time, “Alois Bruner, one of the most wanted Nazi war criminals, is 99 % “. I can’t prove it, we’re sure it’s true. “
Bruner, originally from Austria, along with Austrian war criminal Arybert Heim, also known as the “Doctor of Death”, were announced in July 2007 by the Austrian Ministry of Justice for 50,000 euros each.
Alois Bruner, known as the “Slayer of Thessaloniki”, who remains on the list of declared Nazi war criminals until the final confirmation of his death, probably next August, was accused of being transferred to the German Nazi army and tens of thousands. of Jews from Greece, France, Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.
Brunner was a close associate of the main Nazi criminal Eichmann in the so-called “Central Office for Jewish Immigration” in Vienna, of which he was also director for several years and responsible for the transfer to 44 Nazi death camps. Greece, 47,000 from Austria, 23,500 from France and 14,000 from Slovakia.
Although he was never brought to justice, Bruner was tried and sentenced to death in absentia in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity, and escaped two attempts on his life with trapped letters, losing one eye and four of his left hand.
In relation to the second declared in Austria, following coordinated German-American investigations, it was announced in February 2009 that Aribert Heim had not lived since 1992, having died of bowel cancer in Cairo, where he was said to have lived since the 1960s. as a doctor with a false identity and had converted to Islam.
According to a statement from the Austrian Ministry of Justice, Aribert Heim, born in 1914 in Bad Radkersburg, southern Austria, was accused of “brutally murdering thousands of prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp” from 1941 until the end of the war and where 3,700 Greeks lost their lives in their crematoria.
The Simon Wiesenthal Center had already launched a campaign in 2003 to find the last surviving Nazi war criminals living in Austria, with a newspaper article entitled “The killers are among us.”
The text asked the public to help identify and prosecute Nazi war criminals who had not yet been brought to justice; they were rare and worthless.
In Austria, in the first ten years after the war, Nazi war criminals were tried in the “people’s courts” and 13,000 people were sentenced according to the law, 43 of whom were sentenced to death. Cases were executed.
After 1955 and the withdrawal from Austria of the troops of the four allied powers (USA, Soviet Union, France and Great Britain), the administration of justice passed to the ordinary jury courts.
In the 1960s, 51 cases of people involved in crimes in the Auschwitz concentration camp were investigated, four of which were tried in 1972 and finally acquitted, and the last trial in 1975 involved a concentration camp detainee. at Mauthausen, who was also acquitted.
Source: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ
