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Maximilian Grabner (2 October 1905 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian Gestapo chief in Auschwitz. At Auschwitz he was in command of the torture chamber Block 11, where he gained a reputation of brutality. He was executed for crimes against humanity in 1948.
Maximilian Grabner was a Nazi SS officer and the Head of the Political Department at Auschwitz from 1940 to 1943. He was known as the "Lord God of Auschwitz" for his cruel and violent treatment of prisoners, and was executed in 1948.
Of the 40 people indicted, 23 (including the second Auschwitz commandant, Arthur Liebehenschel, political department head Maximilian Grabner, and women’s camp director Maria Mandel) were sentenced to death, and 6 to life imprisonment.
Jun 17, 2021 · The prisoners there told of many brutal SS guards and members of staff who made the camp hell on earth. One particular man was Maximilian Grabner, the man who was referred to as 'The Torturer...
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In the post-war testimonies of SS men, there were motives of the ruthlessness of the head of the Political Department of KL Auschwitz Maximilian Grabner, who often took great satisfaction in qualifying release applications to the second category, meaning their rejection.
Maximilian Grabner, auch Max Grabner, war ein österreichischer SS-Untersturmführer und Kriegsverbrecher, der Leiter der Politischen Abteilung im KZ Auschwitz war. Nach dem Ende des NS-Regimes wurde er wegen seiner Verantwortung für zahlreiche NS-Gewaltverbrechen im Krakauer Auschwitzprozess zum Tode verurteilt und hingerichtet.
Maximilian Grabner (2 October 1905 – 24 January 1948) was an Austrian Gestapo chief in Auschwitz. At Auschwitz he was in command of the torture chamber Block 11, where he gained a reputation of brutality. He was executed for crimes against humanity in 1948.
