Karl Silberbauer

Karl Silberbauer

Karl Josef Silberbauer (June 21, 1911 – September 2, 1972) was an Austrian SD non-commissioned officer holding the rank of SS-Oberscharführer (Staff sergeant), when, serving in the occupied Netherlands, he arrested Anne Frank and her family in their hiding place in 1944.

Read more about Karl Silberbauer:  Biography, Silberbauer's Recollections of The Arrest, Sources

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