Josef Witiska
1894–1946
- Nationality
- AustriaâHungary
- Occupation
- jurist
Josef Witiska (5 July 1894 â 16 October 1946) was an Austrian lawyer and police official.
Incarceration history
Facilities
- Camp Marcus W. OrrDates unknown
Biography
Josef Witiska (5 July 1894 â 16 October 1946) 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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