Erich Wasicky

Erich Wasicky (May 27, 1911 in Vienna, Austria - May 28, 1947 in Landsberg) was a pharmacist at the Mauthausen concentration camp during World War II and the Holocaust. He was responsible for killing many prisoners.

Wasicky worked at Mauthausen, where prisoners had to hand-carry quarried stone blocks up these steps for hours

Participation in the Holocaust

Wasicky joined the Nazi Party and the SS (where he had the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer). From 1941 to 1944, he worked at Mauthausen. He was in charge of choosing victims to be killed, and of poisoning them with the gas Zyklon B. He also drove trucks that were used for killing people by exhaust gas. Up to 15,000 people had been killed at Mauthausen as well as the neighboring Hartheim killing facility.

Trial and execution

See the main page: Nuremberg Trials

After the end of World War II, Wasicky was found guilty of murder at the Nuremberg Trials. He was executed by hanging on May 28, 1947.

Related pages

• World War II
• The Holocaust
• Mauthausen concentration camp
• Zyklon B
• Nuremberg Trials

Other websites

• Erich Wasicky
• Dachau trials Archived 2008-05-07 at the Wayback Machine
• Jewish Virtual Library