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Anton "Toni" Burger (19 November 1911 – 25 December 1991) was a Sturmbannführer (Major) in the German Nazi SS and ''Lagerkommandant'' of Theresienstadt concentration camp. ==Military career== Anton Burger was born in Neunkirchen, Austria, the son of a stationery dealer. He joined the Austrian Army in 1930 and the Austrian Nazi Party in 1932. In June 1933 the Nazi Party was officially banned in Austria by the government of Engelbert Dollfuss and Burger was dishonorably discharged from the army in July. He moved illegally to Lechfeld near Augsburg, Germany where he became a member of the Austrian Legion, a paramilitary group composed of pro-Nazi Austrian expatriates. Shortly afterward he joined the ''Sturmabteilung'' (SA). In 1935 he received German citizenship and moved into the SA barracks.〔Karla Muller-Tupath, ''Verschollen in Deutschland. Vom heimlichen Leben des Anton Burger, Lagerkommandant in Theresienstadt'', Hamburg 1994; ISBN 978-3894581329.〕 Burger went to Vienna to participate with the Austrian Legion in the ''Anschluss'' on 12 March 1938. He was inducted into the SS and assigned to the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, where he was a member of the Reich Security Main Office Special Action Command "Eichmann" (RSHA Sondereinsatzkommando under Adolf Eichmann). In the summer of 1939, he was transferred to the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Prague, where he participated in the expropriation of about 1,400 Jewish households.〔(Anton Burger )〕 In April 1941 he was promoted to ''Obersturmführer'' (Second Lieutenant). In the spring of 1941 he was promoted to head of the RSHA branch office in Brno. In 1942 Burger was ordered to Brussels by Eichmann to coordinate efforts to deport Belgian, Dutch and French Jews. Burger served at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 before becoming the Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp from July 3, 1943 to February 7, 1944. He was known for his cruelty as a camp commander; on 11 November 1943 he ordered the entire camp population of approximately 40,000 people to stand in freezing weather during a camp census. About 300 prisoners died of hypothermia as a result.〔("Zählung im Bohušovicer Kessel", (The Bohušovicer Kessel Census). )〕 In February 1944 he was sent to Greece by Eichmann to replace Dieter Wisliceny, with whom Eichmann was dissatisfied.〔Mazower, M. ''Inside Hitler's Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-1944'' (2001); Yale Nota Bene Books; p. 252.〕 As head of the ''Sicherheitsdienst'' in Athens under Colonel Walter Blume, Burger organized the deportations of Romaniote and Sephardi Jews from Rhodes, Kos, Athens〔(Nuremberg Affidavit ) of Dieter Wisliceny.〕 Ioannina, and Corfu (a total of over 3,000 people),〔 earning a promotion to SS-''Hauptsturmführer'' (Captain) by June 1944.〔Schminck-Gustavus, Christoph U., ''Winter in Griechenland: Krieg, Besatzung, Shoah 1940-1944.'' Göttingen: Wallstein, 2010.〕 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「Anton Burger」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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