Execution of Arthur Seyss-Inquart Austrian Nazi leader and SS officer Nuremberg trial
Execution of Arthur Seyss-Inquart Austrian Nazi leader and SS officer Nuremberg trial Arthur Seyss-Inquart Austrian Nazi politician and SS officer.
He volunteered for the Austrian Army at the beginning of World War I in August 1914 and mostly fought on the Italian front and was decorated for bravery on several occasions.
German troops crossed the border into Austria, with the official approval of Seyss-Inquart. There was no resistance. The German troops were greeted with cheers from the Austrians. On 13 March Seyss-Inquart drafted a bill allowing Austria to become a province of Germany, full Anschluss, The annexation of Austria was accepted by Seyss-Inquart government and signed by Hitler. Austria was now part of the German Reich under the name of Ostmark.
he became deputy to Governor General Hans Frank, remaining in this position until 18 May 1940. Seyss-Inquart was appointed Reich Commissioner for the occupied Netherlands and In April 1941, he was promoted to SS- Lieutenant General SS-Obergruppenführer. Dutch Jews were sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp on the border of Germany and to Mauthausen in Upper Austria.
He was tried at the Nuremberg Trials before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, along with 21 other high-ranking Nazi leaders.
In his final statement, Seyss-Inquart denied knowledge of various war crimes.
he improved the conditions of the Dutch people while Commissioner. Seyss-Inquart concluded by saying, My final word is the principle on which I have always acted and that I will remain faithful until my last breath: “I believe in Germany”.
He was hanged in Nuremberg Prison on 16 October 1946, at the age of 54, together with nine other Nuremberg defendants.
He was the last to mount the scaffold, and his last words were: “I hope that this execution is the last act of the tragedy of the Second World War and that the lesson taken from this world war will be that peace and understanding should exist between peoples. I believe in Germany.”
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