Peter Egner

Peter Egner (born February 1, 1922 in Yugoslavia ; † January 26, 2011 in Seattle , USA) was a man of German descent born in the former Yugoslavia who had US citizenship from 1965. As a member of the SS (SD) security service, he was involved in guarding prisoners in Auschwitz . Egner was on the list of the most wanted Nazis at the Simon Wiesenthal Center .

Life

Egner was a member of the secret service of the NSDAP , the security service of the SS. After the war Egner went to the USA. In 1965 he applied for citizenship. He lived in seclusion with his wife in Portland . When he was naturalized, Egner stated that he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht , but withheld his involvement in the SD.

Role as a security guard in Yugoslavia

Egner served in a " Einsatzgruppe des SD ", a Nazi special police unit consisting mostly of Serbs . The unit murdered thousands of Jews and Serbs in specially converted gas vans (closed trucks that were fumigated with carbon monoxide ) in early 1942 . The SD played a crucial role in the extermination of Jews, Gypsies, communists, homosexuals and other minorities in the Third Reich. Documents show that as a security guard he accompanied a train to Auschwitz concentration camp, in which children, women and men of the Sinti and Roma were deported .

Egner himself insisted for a long time that he was a simple Wehrmacht soldier who was wounded in 1943. Judicial records from 2010 show that he was a private in the Einsatzgruppen. Egner said he was confused at the time of his first testimony and therefore did not tell the truth then.

Serbia reviewed Egner's role in the Semlin and Avala executions. Egner died on January 26, 2011 in a senior citizens' residence near Seattle .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8600810.stm
2. ↑ http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2013349352_egner05m.html
3. ↑ http://www.shortnews.de/id/874549/usa-mutmasslicher-kriegsverbrecher-peter-egner-gestorben
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive )