| − | 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. In the literature he is sometimes referred to by the abbreviation Brunner I , to distinguish him from Anton Brunner (Brunner II). | + | 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. |
| − | Since the 1950s like many other Nazis , he had found refuge among the [[Arabs]]. <small>(The common thread of anti-Jewish campaign, after Zionists' 1949 victory).</small> | + | <sma>(In the literature he is sometimes referred to by the abbreviation Brunner I, to distinguish him from Anton Brunner (Brunner II)).</small> |
| | 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. | | 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. |