[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 55 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 55

 Urging the President to call on the President of Syria to permit the 
        extradition of fugitive Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 1993

 Mr. McNulty submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

_______________________________________________________________________

                               RESOLUTION


 
 Urging the President to call on the President of Syria to permit the 
        extradition of fugitive Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner.

Whereas Austrian-born Alois Brunner, who joined the Nazi party at the age of 19, 
        was the deputy and personal secretary to Adolf Eichmann, who was 
        personally responsible for sending to their deaths more than 120,000 
        Jews from Austria, Germany, France, Slovakia, and Greece;
Whereas, in 1938, after Kristallnacht, Brunner joined the Nazi Secret Police and 
        subsequently requested a transfer to the Central Office for Jewish 
        Emigration in Vienna, where he began his career in genocide as 
        Eichmann's personal secretary;
Whereas Brunner, often characterized as the personification of Nazi sadism in 
        all its horror, executed Eichmann's plan for the Final Solution;
Whereas Brunner was particularly brutal toward French Jews, sending to their 
        deaths more than 200 children from Jewish-operated orphanages, including 
        34 children from Louviciennes;
Whereas, in 1954, Brunner was sentenced to death in absentia by French courts in 
        Paris and Marseilles for crimes against humanity;
Whereas, since 1955, Brunner has lived in Damascus, Syria, under the protection 
        of the Syrian government and Syrian bodyguards and has assumed the name 
        of Dr. Georg Fischer;
Whereas it is well known that Brunner lives in an apartment at 7 Rue Haddad in 
        Damascus;
Whereas the Syrian government has frequently denied that Brunner lives in Syria; 
        and
Whereas attempts by Austria and Germany to secure Brunner's extradition from 
        Syria have been unsuccessful: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives urges the President to 
call on the President of Syria to permit the extradition of the 
fugitive Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner for trial in Germany.

                                 <all>