Erhard Brauny
Erhard Richard Brauny (17 October 1913 – 16 June 1950) was a German SS-Hauptsturmführer who served as a Rapportführer at the Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp.
Biography
Brauny, a dyer by profession, joined the Schutzstaffel in 1932 and the Nazi Party on 1 February of the same year (membership number 922.060).[1] He was initially assigned to the guard of Buchenwald concentration camp in September 1937. After he completed six months of service at Dachau concentration camp, he was transferred to the Mittelbau-Dora camp in September 1943 – at the time a subcamp of Buchenwald – where he served as a rapportführer until November 1944.[2] From 20 November 1944 to early April 1945, he was commander of the Rottleberode concentration camp, a subcamp of Mittelbau-Dora.[3] On 4 April 1945, he led an evacuation transport via rail of about 400 prisoners from Rottleberode.[4]
After his arrest, Brauny was tried in the Dora trial, which took place from 7 August to 30 December 1947, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Brauny severely mistreated Jewish prisoners, beating and kicking them, and participated in executions at Mittlebau-Dora. He denied any involvement in the Gardelegen massacre, claiming that he had left the scene of the massacre before it had begun.[5]
References
- ↑ Bundesarchiv R 9361-IX KARTEI/4300253
- ↑ Wagner 2001, p. 666.
- ↑ Wagner 2001, p. 656.
- ↑ Wagner 2007, p. 199f.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140222051543/http://www.online.uni-marburg.de/icwc/dachau/000-050-0037.pdf (42-46)
General
- Wagner, Jens-Christian (2001). Produktion des Todes: Das KZ Mittelbau-Dora (in Deutsch). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Search this book on
- Wagner, Jens-Christian (2007). Konzentrationslager Mittelbau-Dora 1943–1945 (in Deutsch). Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. Search this book on
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