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In 1963, Silberbauer, by then an inspector in the Vienna police, was exposed as the commander of the 1944 Gestapo raid on the Anne Frank House Secret Annex and the arrests of Anne Frank, her fellow fugitives, and two of their protectors, Victor Kugler and Johannes Kleiman.
- Austrian
- Apprehending and arresting Anne Frank while her family was in hiding
- Mauer, Friedensstrasse, Vienna, Austria
- Nazi Party
In 1963, former Nazi Karl Silberbauer was arrested in Vienna. He was the SD man who had arrested the eight people in hiding in 1944. Since 1946, he had been a policeman in Vienna, just like he had been before the Second World War. Silberbauer was tracked down by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
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Prinsengracht 263. Amsterdam. Nederland. On 4 August 1944, around 10:30 in the morning, an arrest team of Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst, (Sipo-SD) raided the premises on Prinsengracht. [1] The team was led by SS-Hauptscharführer Karl Silberbauer and included the detectives Willem Grootendorst and Gezinus Gringhuis.
Karl Silberbauer is in charge Friday, 4 August 1944 was a warm and sunny day in Amsterdam. To the people in hiding, it was the 761th day in the Secret Annex, more than two years since the day Anne and her family had entered the hiding place on 6 July 1942.
In 1963, after the Austrian “Nazi-hunter” Simon Wiesenthal tracked down the former SS Officer Karl Joseph Silberbauer, the man who had led the raid on the Secret Annex, the assumption of betrayal seemed to be confirmed. Consequently, until now the literature on this subject has always focused on the question of who?
Mar 20, 2015 · Karl Silberbauer, the Austrian former Gestapo officer who arrested Anne Frank and her family in Nazi occupied Amsterdam in 1944, and who has been, serving since the war as a police...
May 5, 2002 · Hours earlier, Karl Josef Silberbauer, the Austrian commander of the squad, received a phone call from the head of the Amsterdam security police who said eight Jews were hiding in the...
