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Heinrich Andergassen (July 30, 1908 – July 26, 1946) was an Austrian Nazi Party member. He was a member of the SS and Gestapo. He was executed by Italy for his role in the Holocaust.

Andergassen spent much of the Second World War working for the Sicherheitsdienst from their base at Bolzano.[1] By the end of the war he had achieved the rank of Sturmbannfuehrer, serving under Karl Wolff.[2] He was sentenced to death by a British military court in 1946.[3]

Bibliography

  • Beimrohr, Wilfried: Die Gestapo in Tirol und Vorarlberg, in: Tiroler Heimat, Jahrbuch für Geschichte und Volkskunde, Innsbruck 2000, p. 225.
  • Lun, Margareth: NS-Herrschaft in Südtirol, Innsbruck (u.a.) 2004, pp. 146, 338, 545.
  • Steinacher, Gerald: "In der Bozner Zelle erhängt …": Roderick Hall — Einziges Ein-Mann-Unternehmen des amerikanischen Kriegsgeheimdienstes in Südtirol" (1999) Retrieved, 23 April 2014
  • Steinacher, Gerald: Südtirol und die Geheimdienste 1943-1945, Innsbrucker Forschungen zur Zeitgeschichte, Bd. 15, Innsbruck (u.a.) 2000, pp. 247-251, 255-270.
  • New York Times: Confess Killing Fliers: Germans on Trial in Naples for Murder of Americans. 11. January 1946, p. 2.
  • The Washington Post: Tell of Four U.S. Fliers´ Death. 11 January 1946, p. 9.
  • Chicago Daily Tribune: 3 Nazis to hang for Murder of 7 Allied Troops. 16 January 1946, p. 12.
  • New York Times: 3 Gestapo Men to Hang: Naples Court Gives Verdict in Murder of 7 Allied Soldiers. 16 January 1946, p. 7.
  • New York Times: Germans incensed at U.S.-Danes Pact: Germans charged with killing Allied Men in Italy. 3 February 1946. p. 12.
  • Los Angeles Times: S.S. Torture Trio Hanged. 27 July 1946, p. 5.
  • New York Times: 3 S.S. Officers Hanged: Trio Convicted of Torture-Killing of 7 Allied Soldiers in Italy. 27 July 1946, p. 5.

References

  1. ^ Michael Salter, Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg: Controversies Regarding the Role of the Office of Strategic Services, Routledge, 2007, p. 136
  2. ^ Salter, Nazi War Crimes, US Intelligence and Selective Prosecution at Nuremberg, p. 111
  3. ^ David A. Messenger, Katrin Paehler, A Nazi Past: Recasting German Identity in Postwar Europe, University Press of Kentucky, 2015, pp. 175-176


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