Salo Weininger

The Second World War - Criminals - Cracow - Krakow ghetto - Poland
Gestapo - Jewish collaborators

Salo Weininger was a Gestapo(german: Geheime Staatspolizei) The Secret State Police established in the Third Reich, which ruthlessly fought against all forms of resistance in the occupied territories. Identified with the most terrible German crimes against Poles, and after 1942 also against Jews. Disbanded with the fall of the Third Reich in 1945. Recognized as a criminal organization by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. agent operating in Krakow. He was allawed to move around freely without the Star of David armband.

He usually operated at the train station, catching Jews who had the "good look" and were traveling on Aryan papers. The German services were not able to effectively recognize such people, so Weininger - being a Jew himself - easily identified his fellows brothers. He was often accompanied by a non-Jewish agent who was making the arrest itself. One of the arrested stated that Weininger introduced himself under the name "Karol". Another, named Haffner, was recognized by Weininger on a tram, and despite trying to escape, he was caught with the help of a second non-Jewish agent, severely beaten, handcuffed and committed to the officials.

In Krakow, as in Lviv or Warsaw, some Jews had foreign passports. They usually obtained these passports (or promises) thanks to relatives living in neutral countries. Salo Weininger, collaborating with Erich Vollbrecht from the Gestapo and Oberscharführer Franz Sieche, promised about eighty rich Jews who had foreign documents to leave abroad. Of course not for free. Then, in 1943, they were all taken to Jerozolimska Street and shot on the site of the former Jewish cemetery.

Irena Goldwaser from Krakow, according to Lesser Landau's account, another Gestapo agent warned against Weininger, who used to get rid of the whole family so that no one could avenge the wrongs he had caused. After being arrested, Irena Goldwasser tried to bribe Weininger with a ring, but he did nothing to save her, on the contrary, he made sure that she was included in the transport going to [Bełżec] where her father was. Irena Goldwasser managed to escape from the square, where the deportees were kept.

On another occasion, Salo Weininger demanded a five-carat diamond for the release of the witness's mother from custody. As he only got a diamond with a two-carat, he was not dismissed. Only the intervention at the head of the Gestapo in Bochnia and the additional payment resulted.

At the end of the war, Weininger left for Hungary and settled in Budapest. After the Red Army entered, he tried to change his appearance and got himself false documents in the name of Karol Teichman. Then he fled to Romania. There, in the city of Arad, a long-time acquaintance recognized him. He has been arrested. About $4,000 and large amounts of diamonds were found on him. After being questioned by the Russians, Weininger was transferred to Temeshwar, and his arrest aroused great interest in the local press. However, Weininger's wife managed to buy her husband out of prison, and then they with their child, moved back to Budapest with their.

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Witold Mędykowski "Przeciw swoim. Wzorce kolaboracji żydowskiej w Krakowie i okolicy"

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