What is Erich Wasicky?
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 192-269, KZ Mauthausen, Häftlinge im Steinbruch.jpg|thumb|Wasicky worked at [[Mauthausen concentration camp|Mauthausen]], where prisoners had to hand-carry [[Quarry|quarried]] [[stone]] blocks up these steps for hours]] '''Erich Wasicky''' (May 27, 1911 in [[Vienna]], [[Austria]] - May 28, 1947 in [[Landsberg]]) was a [[pharmacist]] at the [[Mauthausen concentration camp|Mauthausen]] [[concentration camp]] during [[World War II]] and the [[The Holocaust|Holocaust]]. He was responsible for killing many prisoners. == Participation in the Holocaust == Wasicky joined the [[Nazi Party]] and the [[Schutzstaffel|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 [[Poison|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|Hartheim killing facility]]. == Trial and execution == ''See the main page: [[Nuremberg Trials]]'' After the end of [[World War II]], Wasicky was found [[Guilt (law)|guilty]] of [[murder]] at the [[Nuremberg Trials]]. He was [[Execution|executed]] by [[hanging]] on May 28, 1947.<ref>{{Cite web |url= http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/WarCrime42.html |title=Mauthausen Trial |work=jewishvirtuallibrary.org |accessdate=May 6, 2010 }}</ref> == Related pages == * [[World War II]] * [[The Holocaust]] * [[Mauthausen concentration camp]] * [[Zyklon B]] * [[Nuremberg Trials]] ==References== {{reflist}} == Other websites == * [http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3396479 Erich Wasicky] * [http://www.scrapbookpages.com/dachauscrapbook/DachauTrials/Mauthausen05.html Dachau trials] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080507050956/http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapBook/DachauTrials/Mauthausen05.html |date=2008-05-07 }} * [http://