Alois Brunner - The Last Nazi

This documentary tells the story of Alois Brunner, an SS man and Eichmann’s assistant. Brunner was born in Austria in 1912. From 1938 onwards, he worked as the manager of a center for Jewish migrants in Vienna and dealt with deporting the Jews from the city to the East. In March 1943 he was sent to Greece and there dealt with the evacuation of Jews from Saloniki, Turkey and Macadonia. In July 1943 Brunner was appointed as camp commander at Drancy in Paris, France. In this role he removed all the French officials and proceeded to run the camp with a number of SS officers. This period represents a marked worsening for the prisoners’ conditions and an increased effort to transport more Jews to Auschwitz. In September 1944 Brunner arrived in Bratislava and there dealt with completing the evacuation of Slovakian Jews. After the war, he disappeared. He was tried in absentia in Paris and in 1954, was sentenced to death.