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. In 1942 was sent by Adolf Eichmann to Brussels, Belgium, in order to coordinate the efforts towards deportation of Belgian, Dutch and French Jews. He was later sent to Salonika in Greece by Eichman in the same purpose. He was the Commandant of Concentration camp Theresienstadt between 1943 and 1944. Burger went into hiding after the war under an assumed name and his identity was not uncovered until 1994, three years after his death.

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