Emil Augsburg

Emil Augsburg (born 1 May 1904 in Łódź; died 1 March 1981 in Gräfelfing) was a German SS functionary and Nazi war criminal.

Career Emil Augsburg was born in Congress Poland in 1904 and learned to speak fluent Polish and Russian.

"Studious and dedicated, Augsburg earned a doctorate three decades later studying about the press in the Soviet Union. In 1934 he joined the SD; membership in the SS followed. In 1937, Augsburg became associated with the Wannsee Institut." Between 1939 and 1941 he worked for the Security Police. As part of his duties in World War II, Augsburg was responsible for planning the SS executions of Jews and other "enemies of the Reich" in occupied Poland. Augsburg was later a member of the Vorkommando Moskau for Einsatzgruppe B. During Operation Barbarossa, he participated in mass executions of Jews, communists, and partisans in Smolensk.

"After Augsburg was wounded in an air attack in Smolensk in September 1941, he returned to Berlin to conduct research on Eastern European matters. The RSHA foreign intelligence branch formally absorbed the Wannsee Institute in 1943." He interrogated Soviet prisoners of war for Operation Zeppelin.

Just before the war ended Augsburg hid at a Benedictine cloister in Ettal, Germany. There he joined a sympathetic Polish monsignor and the pair escaped to the Vatican in Rome.