Franz Josef Huber, responsible for the deportation of tens of thousands of Austrian Jews, and a close associate of Adolf Eichmann, was employed after World War II and worked quietly in the West German intelligence service, German public television channel ARD revealed on Tuesday.
This was discovered in the archives of the West German BND service, which show that the SS general who commanded the Gestapo in Vienna was employed by the BND from 1955 to 1967, and protected from possible judicial proceedings.
A former Munich policeman, Huber became head of the Nazi secret police in Vienna shortly after the German annexation of Austria in 1938 and held the position until 1944.
He was also responsible for the deportation of tens of thousands of Austrian Jews to Nazi death camps.
During the Second World War, a total of 65.000 Austrian Jews, mostly from Vienna, were exterminated.
Huber thus worked hand in hand with Adolf Eichmann, who is considered the organizer of the extermination of the Jews in Europe.
Eichmann, who was tried for crimes only 60 years ago, in Jerusalem, especially worked on the formation of the "Central Agency for Jewish Emigration" in Vienna.
After the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich in 1945, the Americans arrested Huber, and released him already in 1948.
That SS general, according to the ARD, proved to be "cooperative" with the Allied forces.
Thus he avoided prosecution for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
"The Cold War (with the Soviet Union) was inevitable and they (the Americans) were therefore primarily looking for hard-line anti-communists," said Bodo Heelhamer, historian of BND affairs, TV ARD reported.
"Unfortunately, all too often such types were sought and found among former Nazis".
After his retirement in 1967, Franz Jozef Huber received a pension as a German civil servant and continued to work for an office equipment company.
He lived peacefully, under his own name, and died in Munich in 1975, at the age of 73.
The BND "knew exactly that Huber was not a petty Gestapo killer, but an SS general who worked in the deepest circles of the Nazi terror apparatus and was responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Jews and opponents of the regime," said historian Stefan Meining, who participated in the study of West German intelligence archives. services.
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