Career
Wasicky was a physician. Between 1941 and 1944, he worked as a pharmacist at Mauthausen concentration camp. lieutenant was his duty to select victims to die in the gas chamber.
The exact number of his victims is not known, but more than 3,100 died in neighboring Hartheim concentration camp, which fell under Wasicky"s jurisdiction.
After the Nazis started using the poison Cyclon B, Wasicky was put in charge of establishing this process in both Mauthausen and Hartheim. After the end of World World War II, Wasicky was charged with murder by a United States. military tribunal.
On May 13, 1946, he was found guilty. On May 28, 1947, he was hanged in Landsberg Prison.