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TheDeutsch Schützen massacre was a 1945mass killing of at least 57Hungarian Jewishforced laborers by theWaffen-SS inDeutsch Schützen-Eisenberg in Austria. TheHitler Youth-Bannführer Alfred Weber, who was responsible for construction in Deutsch Schützen, gave the order for the massacre. At the old church, Martinskirche, in the farmland on the west side of Deutsch Schützen, a plaque was erected on the exterior of the building memorializing those murdered in the massacre.
The villageDeutsch Schützen-Eisenberg had become a part of theStyrianGau after theAnschluss because SouthernBurgenland was annexed to it. The rest of theBundesland became a part of theReichsgau Niederdonau.
On September 1, 1944, theReich Defense Commissioner was instructed byAdolf Hitler's directives to plan and build fortification along theReich's borders. In the Styrian region, the defensive line known in German propaganda as theSouth-east wall was to be built for this purpose.GauleiterSiegfried Uiberreither was responsible for its construction.[1]
The incident occurred on 29 March 1945.[2]
The victims' remains were found in 1995 by theIsraelitische Kultusgemeinde Wien.[3] In 2008, Viennese political science studentAndreas Forster discovered the name ofAdolf Storms in records of the incident. Forster's professorWalter Manoschek gathered evidence and conducted a videotaped interview with Storms.[4] In 2009, then 90-year-old Storms was indicted for his alleged involvement in the killings.[5]
Storms died on June 28, 2010, at the age of 90.[6]
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