Dieter Wisliceny

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

Life

Wisliceny is said to have dropped out of a theology course after his school days and also worked as a journalist. He joined the NSDAP ( membership number 672.774) and SA in 1931 . In 1934 he switched from the SA to the SS (SS no. 107.216) and became a member of the SD . From 1934 to 1937 he worked in Berlin , initially as a consultant for “ Freemason issues ” in the SD main office and from April 1937 to November 1937 he headed the “Jewish department” of the SD there. He then worked for the SD in Danzig until 1940 . At a suggestion by Adolf Eichmann , whom he knew well, he went to Bratislava in September 1940 as a representative of the Reich Security Main Office ( Section IV B 4: "Jewish Affairs" ) with a German delegation, where he worked as a "specialist and advisor in Jewish affairs" for the Slovak government worked. On February 6, 1943, Wisliceny was transferred to Greece together with Alois Brunner , where he headed the “Special Command for Jewish Affairs” in Saloniki . In the period from March 14 to August 7, 1943, 43,850 Jews (95 percent of the Jewish population of Saloniki ) and others from the surrounding area were deported in 19 train transports , most of them to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . In the autumn and winter of 1943, Wisliceny headed a “Jewish department” at the head of the Security Police and the SD in Athens , to which Alfred Slawik also belonged. On the day of the German occupation of Hungary , March 19, 1944, Wisliceny arrived in Budapest as a member of the Eichmann Special Operations Command , which from April to October 1944 deported over 400,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz, most of whom were gassed there immediately .

Wisliceny was arrested on May 12, 1945 near Lake Altaussee in Austria. He was an important witness for the prosecution during the Nuremberg Trials . His statement, in which he gave information about himself and essentially commented on the deportations of Jews, was also used in the Eichmann trial in Jerusalem in 1961 . After the Nuremberg Trials, Wisliceny was extradited to Czechoslovakia , where he was indicted, found guilty, sentenced to death on February 27, 1948 , and executed in Bratislava on May 4, 1948 .

literature

• David Cesarani : Eichmann. His Life and Crimes. William Heinemann, London 2004 (later also: TB) German: Adolf Eichmann. Bureaucrat and mass murderer. Biography. Propylaea, Berlin 2004 ISBN 3-549-07186-8 .
• Richard Overy : Interrogations: The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands 1945 Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, London 2001 (later also in German: "Verhöre. The Nazi Elite in Allied Hands 1945.", Propylaeen, Munich / Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-549-07163-9 ; Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 978-3-548-36781-1 .)
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich: Who was what before and after 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 3-596-16048-0 .
• Franciszek Piper : The number of victims of Auschwitz. Publishing house State Museum in Oświęcim, Oświęcim 1993, ISBN 83-85047-17-4 .
• Katarína Hradská: The unsuccessful attempts to resume the deportations of Slovak Jews. In: Theresienstadt Studies and Documents No. 9, 2002
• Israel Gutman (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Holocaust. The persecution and murder of European Jews , Piper Verlag, Munich / Zurich 1998, 3 volumes, ISBN 3-492-22700-7 .
• Hans Safrian : Eichmann and his assistants . Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12076-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dieter Wisliceny in the catalog of the German National Library
• Wisliceny's affidavit dated January 3, 1946 at the Nuremberg Trials. ( Memento from April 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Eichmann's helpers - SS-Hauptsturmführer Dieter Wisliceny. (English)
• "R. and S. Questionnaire" from DW, scan
• “Bombs on the Zionists” 2002, supplemented in 2007 (PDF; 3.8 MB) by Gerhard Höpp , from Berliner Zeitung , with text additions 2007: Commented statement by DW from July 1946 about the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Individual evidence

1. ^ Institute for Contemporary History : The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58480-6 , p. 669.
2. ↑ RuS questionnaire by Dieter Wisliceny at www.deathcamps.org (RuS = Race and Settlement Main Office of the SS).
3. ↑ Hans Safrian : Eichmann und seine Gehilfen, Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 209ff.
4. ^ Raul Hilberg : The annihilation of the European Jews. Volume 2, Fischer Verlag 1982, ISBN 3-596-24417-X , p. 739 ff.
5. ↑ Hans Safrian: Eichmann und seine Gehilfen, Frankfurt am Main 1995, pp. 233ff., 270ff.
6. ↑ Hans Safrian: Eichmann und seine Gehilfen , Frankfurt am Main 1995, p. 295ff.
7. ^ Wisliceny's affidavit dated January 3, 1946 at the Nuremberg trials. ( Memento of April 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). Document UK-81, SD Stein document archive, University of the West of England, Bristol
8. ^ The Nuremberg Trial, main negotiations. Thursday, January 3, 1946, afternoon session (German). Online at zeno.org full text library.
9. ↑ Randolph L. Braham : The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary . Condensed ed., Wayne State UP, Detroit 2000, p. 263.
10. ↑ "R. and S." means "Race and Settlement ..." It was a questionnaire from the Race and Settlement Main Office (RuSHA), which was later stored in the British Document Center BDC Berlin under this signature. That is why they often appear in historiography. Here SS men had to explain their origins and previous stays.