The Hitler Youth-Bannführer Alfred Weber, who was responsible for construction in Deutsch Schützen, gave the order for the massacre.
At the old church, Martinskirche, in the farmland on the west side of Deutsch Schützen, a plaque was erected on the exterior of the building memorializing those murdered in the massacre.
The village Deutsch Schützen-Eisenberg had become a part of the Styrian Gau after the Anschluss because Southern Burgenland was annexed to it.
In the Styrian region, the defensive line known in German propaganda as the South-east wall was to be built for this purpose.
[3] In 2008, Viennese political science student Andreas Forster discovered the name of Adolf Storms in records of the incident.