Austrian War Criminals

Rank the Most Wicked Austrian War Criminals

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Adolf Eichmann
(German Military Official and One of the Major Organisers of the Holocaust)
Adolf Eichmann
88
Birthdate: March 19, 1906
Sun Sign: Pisces
Birthplace: Solingen, Germany
Died: June 1, 1962
Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi lieutenant colonel and one of the chief organizers of the Holocaust, that involved mass deportation and murder of Jews. In 1962, Eichmann was captured by the Mossad in Argentina and was then taken to Israel. He was eventually tried and hanged for crimes against humanity.
 2 
Hermine Braunsteiner
(German SS 'Helferin' and Camp Guard )
Hermine Braunsteiner
3
Birthdate: July 16, 1919
Sun Sign: Cancer
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: April 19, 1999
 3 
August Eigruber
(Nazi 'Gauleiter' and 'Reichsstatthalter')
August Eigruber
1
Birthdate: April 16, 1907
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Steyr, Austria
Died: May 28, 1947
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 4 
Amon Goeth
(Austrian Nazi Officer and Commandant of Poland's Kraków-Plaszow Concentration Camp)
Amon Goeth
20
Birthdate: December 11, 1908
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria
Died: September 13, 1946

Amon Goeth was an Austrian war criminal and SS functionary. During World War II, Goeth served as the commandant of the Płaszów concentration camp operated by the SS. After the war, he was convicted of homicide and was executed by hanging. Amon Goeth was played by Ralph Fiennes in the 1993 epic historical drama film Schindler's List.

 5 
Alois Brunner
(Austrian Schutzstaffel SS-Hauptsturmführer & Adolf Eichmann's Right-Hand Man)
Alois Brunner
4
Birthdate: April 8, 1912
Sun Sign: Aries
Birthplace: Rohrbrunn, Austria
Died: November 30, 2001

Alois Brunner was an Austrian SS-Hauptsturmführer who played a major role in the execution of the Holocaust. Considered Adolf Eichmann's right-hand man, Brunner was responsible for deporting more than 100,000 European Jews from places like Austria, Slovakia, and France to concentration camps and ghettos in Eastern Europe. After the war, Alois Brunner evaded all attempts to kill or capture him.

 6 
Maria Mandl
(Austrian SS-Helferin)
Maria Mandl
12
Birthdate: January 10, 1912
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Birthplace: Münzkirchen, Austria
Died: January 24, 1948
 7 
Odilo Globocnik
(Austrian Nazi and a Perpetrator of the Holocaust)
Odilo Globocnik
7
Birthdate: April 21, 1904
Sun Sign: Taurus
Birthplace: Trieste, Italy
Died: May 31, 1945

The son of an Austrian army lieutenant, Odilo Globocnik was initially a builder and joined the Nazi Party later. Known as one of the most prominent perpetrators of the ethnic cleansing of Jews during the Holocaust, he headed Operation Reinhard. After being captured, he committed suicide by consuming cyanide.

 8 
Franz Strasser
(Austrian-German 'Nazi Party' District Leader and War Criminal)
Franz Strasser
5
Birthdate: 1899 AD
Birthplace: Austria-Hungary
Died: December 10, 1945