Biography of alois brunner

Alois Brunner

Alois Brunner was born on April 8, 1912, in Rohrbrunn, Austria. He joined the Nazi Party in 1931, and the SS in 1938. He worked as Adolf Eichmann's secretary in Vienna and was in charge of the registration and deportation of Austrian Jews to the East. In a report by Polizeireserveleutnant Fischmann, it was stated that Brunner was present to observe the deportation of a transport of Jews from the Aspangbahnhof, Vienna, to the Sobibor death camp in Poland on June 14, 1942.

Alois Brunner was highly regarded by Adolf Eichmann and he was transferred to Berlin from late 1942, until January 1943, deporting Jews from the Reich capital and the following month saw Brunner in Salonika, Greece. From the Baron Hirsch camp in Salonika, Jews were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp and the Treblinka death camp, in the spring of 1943. One of those who again witnessed Brunner was Gertrude Schneider who was deported from Vienna to Riga on February 6, 1 Ernst kaltenbrunner!