Anton Malloth (February 13, 1912, Innsbruck, Austria – October 31, 2002, Straubing, Germany) was a supervisor in the "Kleine Festung" (Small Fortress) part of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Malloth grew up in the town of Schenna, near Merano, in the Italian province of South Tyrol. His foster-parents ran a small agricultural business and guest-house. He did an apprenticeship as a butcher and later became a lance corporal in the Italian ar...
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Anton Malloth (February 13, 1912, Innsbruck, Austria – October 31, 2002, Straubing, Germany) was a supervisor in the "Kleine Festung" (Small Fortress) part of the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
Malloth grew up in the town of Schenna, near Merano, in the Italian province of South Tyrol. His foster-parents ran a small agricultural business and guest-house. He did an apprenticeship as a butcher and later became a lance corporal in the Italian army, where he opted to serve in Germany. In Innsbruck he received training as a "Schutzpolizei" (a uniformed branch of the 3rd Reich police force) and later volunteered for police service in Prague.
From June 1940 to May 1945, Malloth worked as a supervisor in the Gestapo prison "Kleine Festung Theresienstadt", which was part of the larger Theresienstadt concentration camp. His nickname was "der schöne Toni" (The beautiful Toni). He was convicted of beating at least 100 prisoners to death and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001, after...
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