# Josef Witiska

> Josef Witiska was an Austrian lawyer and police official. After the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany, he joined the Nazi Party and became a member of the Gestapo. While in the Gestapo leadership at Prague, he helped plan and execute the Lidice massacre. He participated in Holocaust-related mass murders during World War II in occupied Poland and in Slovakia where he commanded Einsatzgruppe H and rose to the rank of SS-Standartenführer. Taken into custody after the end of the war, he took his own life before he could be tried for his crimes.

*Austrian jurist and torturer (1894-1946)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Lawyer
- **Category:** Lawyers
- **Country:** Austria
- **Born:** 1894-07-05
- **Died:** 1946-10-16
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Josef Witiska was an Austrian lawyer and police official. After the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany, he joined the Nazi Party and became a member of the Gestapo. While in the Gestapo leadership at Prague, he helped plan and execute the Lidice massacre. He participated in Holocaust-related mass murders during World War II in occupied Poland and in Slovakia where he commanded Einsatzgruppe H and rose to the rank of SS-Standartenführer. Taken into custody after the end of the war, he took his own life before he could be tried for his crimes.

## Fame
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- **Source confidence:** 30.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 55.0 / 100

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