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

Photograph | Photograph Number: 20248

Date: 1945 August 15
Locale: Vienna, Austria
Variant Locale: Wien
Photo Designation: PURSUIT OF JUSTICE -- Capture of Nazi Criminals -- General
Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Janka Rosenzweig

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.
Keyword: AUSTRIANS
GRABNER, MAXIMILIAN
INTERROGATIONS
NAZIS (AUSTRIAN)
POLICE
POLICE (POLISH)
SD/SIPO/GESTAPO
SS (SCHUTZSTAFFELN)
WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATIONS
WAR CRIMINALS/TRIALS
WEAPONS/ARMS
Photo Source: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Provenance: Janka Rosenzweig

Source Record ID: Collections: 1995.45.2
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