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Roland Puhr: Nazi SS Guard Who Beat Austrian Prosecutor Karl Tuppy to Death
Roland Puhr was an SS concentration camp guard at Sachsenhausen who participated in the fatal beating of Austrian prosecutor Karl Tuppy, a man who had helped bring two Nazis responsible for the assassination of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss to justice.
Born on 21 January 1914 in Staré Křečany, then part of Austria-Hungary, Puhr grew up during a period of political instability and rising nationalism in Central Europe. Following Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany in 1933, the Nazi regime increasingly demanded the incorporation of ethnic German communities and territories beyond…
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