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Alois Brunner (8 April 1912 – 2010) was an Austrian ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) officer who worked as Adolf Eichmann's assistant. Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." Brunner is held responsible for sending at least 140,000 European Jews to the gas chambers. He was commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, from which nearly 24,000 people were deported. He was condemned to death ''in absentia'' in France in 1954 for crimes against humanity. In 1961 and in 1980, Brunner lost an eye and the fingers of his left hand as a result of letter bombs sent to him by the Israeli Mossad.〔''フランス語:Alois Brunner — La haine irréductible'', by Didier Epelbaum, preface by Serge Klarsfeld, published by Calmann-Lévy, January 1990.〕 In 2003, British newspaper ''The Guardian'' described him as "the world's highest-ranking Nazi fugitive believed still alive." Brunner was last reported to be living in 2001 in Syria, whose government had long rebuffed international efforts to locate or apprehend him,〔("Most Wanted Nazis" ), by Bridget Johnson, for About.com〕 but was presumed dead as of 2012. The government of Syria under Hafez el-Assad was close to extraditing Alois Brunner to East Germany, before this plan was halted by the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989. Brunner lived in Syria for many years, and was reportedly given asylum, a generous salary and protection by the ruling Baath Party in exchange for his advice on effective torture and interrogation techniques used by the Germans in World War II.〔Time Magazine, December 2, 2014 ''A Notorious Nazi War Criminal Died in Syria Four Years Ago'' http://time.com/3613248/alois-brunner-nazi-officer-syria-death/〕〔The Atlantic Magazine, December 1, 2014 reported by Adam Chandler ''Eichmann's Best Man Lived and Died in Syria'' http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/12/eichmanns-best-man-lived-and-died-in-syria/383296/〕 The Simon Wiesenthal Center, on November 30, 2014, reported Brunner had died in 2010 in Syria. Partly due to the ongoing Syrian Civil War, the exact date of his death and place of burial are unknown at present.〔〔Simon Weisenthal Centre statement by Dr. Efraim Zuroff, director of Israel branch of The Weisenthal Centre〕 ==Until 1945== Born in Nádkút, Vas, Austria-Hungary (now Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), he was the son of Joseph Brunner and Ann Kruise. He joined the Nazi Party in 1931 and the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA) in 1932. After joining the SS in 1938, he was assigned to the staff of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Austria and became its director in 1939. He worked closely with Eichmann on the Nisko Plan, a failed attempt to set up a Jewish reservation in Nisko, Poland, later that same year. Brunner was a trouble-shooter for the SS and held the rank of SS-''Hauptsturmführer'' (captain) when he organized deportations to Nazi concentration camps from Vichy France and Slovakia. He was commander of a train of Jews deported from Vienna to Riga in February 1942. En route, Brunner shot and killed the well-known financier Siegmund Bosel, who, although ill, had been hauled out of a Vienna hospital and placed on the train. According to historian Gertrude Schneider, who as a young girl was deported to Riga on the same train, but survived the Holocaust: Before being named commander of Drancy internment camp near Paris in June 1943, Brunner deported 43,000 Jews from Vienna and 46,000 from Salonika.〔 He was personally sent by Eichmann in 1944 to Slovakia to oversee the deportation of Jews, and from early 1944 until January 1945, over one million Jews were transported to Auschwitz. In the last days of the Third Reich he managed to deport another 13,500 from Slovakia.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alois Brunner」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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