![]() ![]() Thanks to his change of heart, the man from Munich came to Berlin and rose to become SS-Sturmbannführer.Īfter Georg Elser's assassination attempt by Hitler on Novemin Munich's Bürgerbräukeller, he was ordered to Munich to clarify the background. This is all the more remarkable as the Nazis particularly fear the Catholic resistance (since the Bismarck period decried as the "ultramontanes"). ![]() When he changed sides in 1933, he was lucky for the first time: Nazi functionary Reinhard Heydrich had no ideological concerns and values Huber as a capable criminalist. Like his father, he becomes a police officer, where he is responsible for monitoring the NSDAP. It can still be found in the media library.Īlso interesting: in 1945 he helped hundreds of female forced laborers: on the trail of Josef Walser "Eichmann and his secret accomplice" was the title of an ARD report from Munich for which Holzmann was interviewed. What hardly anyone knew until now: Huber cooperated closely with Eichmann in Vienna and had Jews and political opponents persecuted, expropriated, tortured and murdered. The 230-page book, which is largely based on archival material from the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) in Pullach, has attracted international attention.Īfter all, it was published a few months ago to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the famous Eichmann trial in Israel, in which Adolf Eichmann, the organizer of the Holocaust, was sentenced to death. Holzmann himself finds the vita of this man “strange, indeed despicable”. The oppressive: he got away with it, Huber was never brought to account for his crimes. After the war, the Americans held hands over him protectively. After 1933 he shamelessly served them and immediately after the “Anschluss” of Austria in 1938 he was promoted to head of the Gestapo headquarters in Vienna. ![]() In the 1920s, Huber was still a staunch opponent of the Nazis. Huber is characterized above all by his merciless opportunism. Geretsried historian Michael Holzmann, initiator of the Dietramszeller Hindenburg Symposium, dedicated his new book to a largely unknown, but no less disgusting National Socialist: Joseph Franz von Paula Huber (1902 - 1975). ![]()
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