Former SS Second Lieutenant Maximillian Grabner (left) is interrogated by Heinrich Duermayer, the chief of the Austrian Political Police [Staatspolizei].

Photograph | Digitized | Photograph Number: 20248

Overview

Caption: Former SS Second Lieutenant Maximillian Grabner (left) is interrogated by Heinrich Duermayer, the chief of the Austrian Political Police [Staatspolizei].
Date: 1945 August 15
Locale: Vienna, Austria
Variant Locale: Wien
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Janka Rosenzweig

Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Janka Rosenzweig

Source Record ID: Collections: 1995.45.2

Keyword: AUSTRIANS GRABNER, MAXIMILIAN INTERROGATIONS NAZIS (AUSTRIAN) POLICE POLICE (POLISH) SD/SIPO/GESTAPO SS (SCHUTZSTAFFELN) WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATIONS WAR CRIMINALS/TRIALS WEAPONS/ARMS
Photo Designation: PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Capture of Nazi Criminals -- General

Biography: Maximillian Grabner (b. 1905 in Vienna), SS Second Lieutenant who was the director of the political department (Gestapo) at Auschwitz from July 1940 until October 1943. In 1943 he was investigated by an SS judge for the killing of 2,000 prisoners "beyond the general [guide] lines." A trial against him began in October 1944 in Weimar but was never concluded. After the war Grabner was indicted, and in 1947 he was condemned by the Supreme War Tribunal in Krakow and executed on January 28, 1948.