Execution of Maximilian Grabner
- Bestial Nazi SS Officer at Auschwitz Concentration Camp - Gestapo

25 May 2022

Category: High Ranking Nazi Representatives

Maximilian Grabner was born on the 2nd of October 1905 and in 1932 he joined the Nazi Party and after the Anschluss, when German troops invaded Austria and incorporated Austria into the German Reich on the 12th of March 1938, he joined the SS. Soon after, Grabner became a member of the Gestapo, which was an official secret police of Nazi Germany. When in May 1940 the Nazis established Auschwitz, the most notorious concentration camp located in Nazi-occupied Poland, Maximilian Grabner became the camp’s Gestapo chief. As the Head of the Political Department in Auschwitz, Grabner's responsibilities were to to fight against and suppress any resistance movements within the camp as well as prevent any attempts to escape or make contact with the outside world.

Finally to face justice

Maximilian Grabner remained in his position at Auschwitz until November 1943, when he was dismissed and arrested on account of numerous abuses of power and corruption. The prosecutor requested a 12 year sentence but because the head of the Gestapo, Heinrich Müller, refused to cooperate, the trial was never completed.

After the end of the war, Maximilian Grabner was finally to face justice and pay for his crimes. On the 22nd of December, 1947, the Polish Supreme National Tribunal in Krakow sentenced Grabner to death by hanging.

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