Dieter Wisliceny
German Nazi and Schutzstaffel officer (1911–1948)
Dieter Wisliceny | |
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| Born | 13 January 1911 (1911-01-13) Regulowken near Borkenwalde, German Empire |
| Died | 4 May 1948 (1948-05-05) (aged 37) Bratislava, Czechoslovakia |
| Cause of death | Execution by hanging |
| Criminal status | Executed |
| Conviction(s) | Crimes against humanity |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
| Military career | |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
| Service/ |  Schutzstaffel |
| Years of service | 1934–1945 |
| Rank | SS-Hauptsturmführer |
| Unit | SS-Totenkopfverbände |
Dieter Wisliceny (13 January 1911 – 4 May 1948) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the deputies of Adolf Eichmann, helping to organise and coordinate the wide scale deportations of the Jews across Europe during the Holocaust.
Crimes against humanity
Joining the Nazi Party in 1933 and enlisting in the SS in 1934, Wisliceny eventually rose to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) in 1940; he worked in the Reich Security Head Office Referat IV B4 under Adolf Eichmann.[1] During implementation of the Final Solution, his task was the ghettoization and liquidation of several important Jewish communities in Nazi-occupied Europe, including those of Greece, Hungary and Slovakia. Wisliceny also re-introduced the yellow star in occupied countries; the yellow star being used to distinguish Jews from non-Jews. He was involved in the deportation of the Hungarian Jews in 1944.[citation needed]
Wisliceny was an important witness at the Nuremberg trials. His testimony would later prove important in the successful prosecution of Eichmann for his complicity in the Holocaust in Israel in 1961.
Wisliceny was extradited to Czechoslovakia, where he was tried and hanged for war crimes in 1948.
References
- ^ Prof. Stuart Stein (1946). "Affidavit of Dieter Wisliceny". Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression. VIII. United States Government Publishing Office: 606–619. Archived from the original on 2007-08-10.
Dieter Wisliceny in his testimony given before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 3 January 1946, erroneously identifies the Auschwitz concentration camp as the concentration area Sosnowitz (which was one of its dozens of subcamps)
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External links
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- "Nuremberg testimony of Dieter Wisliceny". Nizkor Project. 2012. Retrieved 3 September 2016.
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