Franz Abromeit
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Franz Abromeit was an SS officer and a officer in the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA).
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From 1942 he was Jewish adviser to Croatia
in the Jewish Section (IVB4) of the RSHA with SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann
. 5500 Jews were deported and murdered mostly. In 1944 he was employed with Eichmann, Dieter Wisliceny
, Theodor Dannecker
, Hermann Krumey, Siegfried Seidl
, and Franz Novak in Hungary, to overlook the deportation of Jews in the concentration camps at Auschwitz. Over 430,000 Jews were deported from Hungary, of whom some 200,000 were exterminated. Abromeit was one of the closest stewards under Eichmann.
He escaped Germany as World War II came to an end and was believed to have gone to Egypt
. In 1964 he was declared dead and had long been untraceable.
Biography
Abromeit joined the Nazi Party and in 1938 became a first lieutenant and in 1940 an SS captain. From 1939 to 1941 as served as head of the SD-Special Section for the Evacuation of Poles and Jews that forced resettlement from Danzig and West PrussiaWest Prussia
West Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 1773–1824 and 1878–1919/20 which was created out of the earlier Polish province of Royal Prussia...
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From 1942 he was Jewish adviser to Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
in the Jewish Section (IVB4) of the RSHA with SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Eichmann
Adolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...
. 5500 Jews were deported and murdered mostly. In 1944 he was employed with Eichmann, Dieter Wisliceny
Dieter Wisliceny
Dieter Wisliceny was a member of the Nazi SS, and a key executioner in the final phase of the Holocaust.Wisliceny studied theology without obtaining a degree...
, Theodor Dannecker
Theodor Dannecker
Theodor Dannecker was an SS Hauptsturmführer and one of Adolf Eichmann's associates....
, Hermann Krumey, Siegfried Seidl
Siegfried Seidl
Dr. Siegfried Seidl was a World War II Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp located in the present-day Czech Republic. He was later a convicted war criminal.Siegfried Seidl interrupted his law studies after a few semesters and took on various odd jobs...
, and Franz Novak in Hungary, to overlook the deportation of Jews in the concentration camps at Auschwitz. Over 430,000 Jews were deported from Hungary, of whom some 200,000 were exterminated. Abromeit was one of the closest stewards under Eichmann.
He escaped Germany as World War II came to an end and was believed to have gone to Egypt
Egypt
Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...
. In 1964 he was declared dead and had long been untraceable.
Literature
- Ernst KleeErnst KleeErnst Klee is a German journalist and author. As a writer on Germany's history, he is best known for his exposure and documentation of the medical crimes of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich, much of which is concerned with the Action T4 forced euthanasia program.-Life and work:Klee was first trained as...
: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich; S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-10-039309-0