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Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 in Nádkút , Vas County , Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; - between 2001 and 2012 in [[Damascus]], [[Syria]]) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer. He was one of [[Adolf Eichmann]]'s most important collaborators in the [[Holocaust|extermination]] of the European [[Jews]], in Nazi jargon " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ". As head of SS special commandos deployed for this purpose, Brunner was jointly responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews from Vienna, Berlin, Greece, France and Slovakia to German concentration and extermination camps between 1939 and 1945. | Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 in Nádkút , Vas County , Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; - between 2001 and 2012 in [[Damascus]], [[Syria]]) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer. He was one of [[Adolf Eichmann]]'s most important collaborators in the [[Holocaust|extermination]] of the European [[Jews]], in Nazi jargon " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ". As head of SS special commandos deployed for this purpose, Brunner was jointly responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews from Vienna, Berlin, Greece, France and Slovakia to German concentration and extermination camps between 1939 and 1945. | ||
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Since the 1950s like many other Nazis , he had found refuge among the [[Arabs]]. <small>(The common thread of anti-Jewish campaign, after [[Zionism|Zionists]]' 1948 victory).</small> | Since the 1950s like many other Nazis , he had found refuge among the [[Arabs]]. <small>(The common thread of anti-Jewish campaign, after [[Zionism|Zionists]]' 1948 victory).</small> | ||
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Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 in Nádkút , Vas County , Hungary , Austria-Hungary ; - between 2001 and 2012 in Damascus, Syria) was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer. He was one of Adolf Eichmann's most important collaborators in the extermination of the European Jews, in Nazi jargon " Final Solution to the Jewish Question ". As head of SS special commandos deployed for this purpose, Brunner was jointly responsible for the deportation of 128,500 Jews from Vienna, Berlin, Greece, France and Slovakia to German concentration and extermination camps between 1939 and 1945.
(In the literature he is sometimes referred to by the abbreviation Brunner I, to distinguish him from Anton Brunner (Brunner II)).
Since the 1950s like many other Nazis , he had found refuge among the Arabs. (The common thread of anti-Jewish campaign, after Zionists' 1948 victory). He was employed in Syria by Hafez Al Assad, had advised him on torture methods he employed in the Holocaust. His diabolical 'legacy' by Assad dictatorship lasted till 2024, at the overthrow of Bashir Assad, afrer a genocide of some 700,000.
The Mossad tried to liquidate him but only managed to injured him in the eye.