Adalbert Lallier

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Adalbert Lallier (born May 7, 1925 in Botoš , Banat , Yugoslavia ) is a Canadian economist. During the Second World War he was a member of the Waffen SS . He gained attention in 2001 as a witness in the war crimes trial against Julius Viel .

Life

Adalbert Lallier was born as a Danube Swabian and the son of a factory owner and former Kuk army officer who had to close many of his locations during the global economic crisis . After the occupation of Serbia in 1941 , he was drafted into the Waffen-SS as an ethnic German in June 1942, according to his own statements, involuntarily and despite poor knowledge of German . As an SS Rottenführer and radio operator, he took part in the partisan war as a member of the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division "Prinz Eugen" . From 1944 he completed various officer training courses as an SS Junker in Nuremberg and at the Leitmeritz news school . In the spring of 1945 he, along with other SS soldiers and his superior Julius Viel, guarded a group of Jewish prisoners from the Small Fortress Theresienstadt while they were digging an anti-tank ditch on the Elbe . Lallier witnessed how Viel shot seven prisoners for no reason. At the end of the war he was captured by the British Army in Austria .

According to his own account, after his release in 1946 he helped with the care of Jews in a DP camp in Vienna and was then recruited by the American CIC . He claims to have been involved in tracking down higher SS leaders in Switzerland . He married in 1948 and began studying in Bamberg , which he continued in Vienna, Paris , London and New York . He later taught at Columbia University , and in 1950 he received a visa for Canada . He settled in Québec , taught economics and political science at Concordia University and worked for an international refugee organization. He kept quiet about his past with the Waffen SS. In the 1990s he worked as a business consultant in the Czech Republic , where he revealed to private detective Steve Rambam that he had been able to expose a former SS leader as a war criminal. In 1997, an investigation was initiated against him after he had found refuge in Canada as a former SS member. Lallier appeared as a witness in the Ravensburg war crimes trial and identified Viel as the perpetrator of the murder of the Jews in the spring of 1945. Viel was sentenced to twelve years imprisonment, but died in 2002. Lallier was criticized for keeping his oath of allegiance at times during the trial saw bound and glorified SS leaders. He had previously asked his former division commander Otto Kumm , author of revisionist books after the war , for advice on the matter. After the trial, he had to give up his work as a visiting professor in Montreal.

In the past Lallier himself published books on historical and economic topics.

Interviews

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen: How do you hide horror? In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2001, p. 60-65 ( online ).
  2. ^ Former Waffen SS Member Breaks Oath of Silence to Convict War Criminal. In: Jewish Telegraphic Agency . April 13, 2001, accessed October 13, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Gisela Friedrichsen: Obituary for a judgment . In: Der Spiegel . No. 9 , 2002, p. 62-63 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung of December 14, 2000 according to VVN-BdA Baden-Württemberg
  5. ↑ Kurt Schrimm Guilt that does not go away Heyne, Munich 2017 ISBN 978-3-641-19603-5
personal data
SURNAME Lallier, Adalbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian economist, member of the Waffen SS
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Botoš , Yugoslavia