Anton Burger

Anton Burger (19 November 1911 - 25 December 1991) born in Neunkirchen, Austria, was a Nazi war criminal, Sturmbannführer (Major) in the German Nazi SS. He was member of the Reich Security Main Office Special Action Command "Eichmann" (RSHA Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann). In 1942 Burger was ordered to Brussels, Belgium, by Adolf Eichmann, to coordinate efforts to deport Belgian, Dutch and French Jews. He was later sent to Salonika in Greece by Eichman for the same purpose. In 1943, Burger served at Auschwitz before becoming the Commandant of Concentration camp Theresienstadt from 1943 to 1944. After the war, Burger was arrested and held in an internment camp near Salzburg. In 1948, he escaped, but was recaptured a year later and held in Austrian custody in Vienna. Burger escaped again in 1951 and disappeared without a trace. He lived in the city of Essen under the name Wilhelm Bauer and his identity was not uncovered until 1994, three years after his death.

Readings

• Hans Safrian: Eichmann und seine Gehilfen. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-12076-4.
• Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8.