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Josef Witiska

Austrian jurist and torturer (1894-1946) · Austria · Lawyers · Died at 52

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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.

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A life in dates

1946Died16 October 19461944Iron Cross, 2nd classAwardWar Victory CrossAward1942Named OberregierungsratOffice8 August 19421935Named Councillor of StateOffice1 May 19351894Born5 July 1894

Awards

Iron Cross, 2nd class1944
War Victory Cross1944
Iron Cross, 1st class
War Merit Cross

About this person

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.

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Country
Austria
Category
Lawyers
Type
Lawyer
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1894 to 1946 · aged 52

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