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Close-up of captured war criminal Maximillian Grabner.

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    Close-up of captured war criminal Maximillian Grabner.
    Close-up of captured war criminal Maximillian Grabner.

    Overview

    Caption
    Close-up of captured war criminal Maximillian Grabner.
    Date
    1945 - 1947
    Locale
    Krakow, [Krakow] Poland
    Variant Locale
    Krakau
    Cracow
    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Janka Rosenzweig

    Rights & Restrictions

    Photo Source
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
    Provenance: Janka Rosenzweig
    Source Record ID: Collections: 1995.45.1

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    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.
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    2009-06-16 00:00:00
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