Friedrich Brauner (1889 – March 23, 1942) was an

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fitter and

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against the German

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. He was deported to the concentration camp Ravensbrück and then murdered at the

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Life and work

Brauner was born in Vienna. At work he instigated his colleagues to disobey the orders for air-raid protection and to extort benefits for heavy labour through a strike. He also claimed that

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was caused ″by the fault of the Germans″. Therefore, in January 1940 he was arrested with the accusation of ″

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″ against the

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, interrogated by

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and finally deported to the

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. In 1942 Friedrich Brauner was murdered by the

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s in the so-called

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program

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at Bernburg Euthanasia Centre.

Sources

Erkennungsdienstliche Kartei der Gestapo Wien
(Gestapo records), scientifically processed by the

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, with photographs, retrieved February 21, 2015 * Wolfgang Neugebauer: ''Der österreichische Widerstand 1938-1945'', Vienna: Edition Steinbauer 2008, 10

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