Zwischen Verantwortung und Verfolgung. Wolfgang Sanners Weg zum SS-Hauptsturmführer und Mauthausen-Gefangenen.

Abstract

Ambivalences are at the centre of this biographical account: starting out as an employee of Allgemeine Elektricitäts-Gesellschaft (AEG) and NSDAP functionary in Königsberg (today: Kaliningrad), Sanner was put in charge of a cover office of the Security Service (SD) at AEG headquarters, where he is alleged to have embezzled funds from the SD Main Office or the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) and AEG. He was also arrested in autumn 1940 on the accusation of having helped people persecuted as Jews to escape and was deported to the Mauthausen concentration camp in March 1941, where he was a prisoner of conscience in the ‘Arbeitseinsatzschreibstube’ until the liberation in May 1945. After the end of the war, his experiences there enabled him to testify for and against camp SS personnel, particularly in the Dachau Mauthausen trials. His post-war career as a self-proclaimed journalist and editor of the Bonner Hefte remains just as contradictory as his entire career.

DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.57820/mm.comments.2024.03