Background
Dieter Wisliceny was born on 13 January 1911 in Regularken, the son of a landowner.
Dieter Wisliceny was born on 13 January 1911 in Regularken, the son of a landowner.
Gave up his theology studies.
Worked briefly as a clerk in a construction firm, Wisliceny was unemployed when he became a member of the NSDAP in 1931. In 1934 he joined the SS and in June of the same year entered the SD. At one time Eichmann's superior in the SS, he became his deputy during World War II and one of his 'Jewish experts’ serving as an official in the Reich Central Office of Jewish Emigration.
From September 1940 he was attached to the German delegation in Bratislava as an adviser on Jewish questions to the Slovak government. Wisliceny, who belonged to the more educated stratum of the SS and was more concerned with money than a career, acquired a reputation in Slovakia for accepting bribes. Less fanatical than Eichmann, he accepted 50,000 dollars from the Jewish relief committee in Bratislava for delaying deportations from Slovakia in 1942.
In 1943-4 Wisliceny was sent to Greece, were he headed the Sonderkommando fur Judenangelegenheiten in Salonika, introducing the yellow badge and preparing deportations. In March 1944 he was called to Budapest to join Eichmann's special operations unit. Wisliceny, who liked to have himself addressed as ‘Baron' by the Hungarian Jews, was actively involved in the bargaining for Jewish lives, but the instalments paid to him did not prevent the deportations to Auschwitz. At Nuremberg Wisliceny was a witness for the prosecution and gave shocking details about the ‘Final Solution’.
Wisliceny was eventually extradited to Czechoslovakia, standing trial in Bratislava where he was executed on 27 February 1948 for complicity in mass murder.