18 Facts About Anton Burger

Anton "Toni" Burger was a in the German Nazi SS, in Greece and of Theresienstadt concentration camp.

Anton Burger was born in Neunkirchen, Austria, the son of a stationery dealer.

Anton Burger joined the Austrian Army in 1930 and the Austrian Nazi Party in 1932.

In June 1933 the Nazi Party was officially banned in Austria by the government of Engelbert Dollfuss and Burger was dishonorably discharged from the army in July.

Anton Burger moved illegally to Lechfeld near Augsburg in Germany, where he became a member of the Austrian Legion, a paramilitary group composed of pro-Nazi Austrian expatriates.

Anton Burger went to Vienna to participate with the Austrian Legion in the Anschluss on 12 March 1938.

Anton Burger was inducted into the SS and assigned to the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna, where he was a member of the Reich Security Main Office Special Action Command "Eichmann".

In 1942 Anton Burger was ordered to Brussels by Eichmann to coordinate efforts to deport Belgian, Dutch and French Jews.

Anton Burger served at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 before becoming the Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp from July 3,1943, to February 7,1944.

Anton Burger was known for his cruelty as a camp commander; on 11 November 1943 he ordered the entire camp population of approximately 40,000 people to stand in freezing weather during a camp census.

Anton Burger was then convicted in absentia by the People's Court in the Czech Litomerice and sentenced to death.

In June 1947, shortly before he could be extradited to Austria so he could be executed, Anton Burger escaped from the detention center.

Anton Burger lived under an assumed name in his hometown of Neunkirchen until his second arrest in March 1951 after which he was held in Austrian custody in Vienna.

On 9 April 1951, Anton Burger managed to escape and disappeared without a trace.

Anton Burger's identity was not uncovered until March 1994, more than two years after his death.

In 2011, it was revealed that Anton Burger had in fact not made up the name "Wilhelm Bauer".

Wilhelm Bauer was a Jewish prisoner at Theresienstadt whom Anton Burger had personally murdered in 1944.

Anton Burger strongly disliked Bauer because he wore glasses, and to Anton Burger, that meant Jewish intellectualism and weakness.