Franz Konrad (SS officer)

[2] Out of jail and out of work, Konrad drifted for a few weeks until his former defense lawyer helped him join the (then) illegal Austrian SS (number 46,204) in January 1933".

In July 1935, Konrad fled to Nazi Germany and entered the SS camp in Weisshenfeld for military training as a member of the SS-Verfügungstruppe.

In June 1941, Franz Konrad was attached to Hermann Fegelein's cavalry and involved in Operation Barbarossa.

In Warsaw he is "alleged to have kept the Polish aristocrat Countess Barbara Kalewska as his personal mistress.

[6] On 5 May 1945 Spacil met up with SS Hauptsturmführer Franz Konrad at the village of Mittensill near Taxenbach and gave him a substantial sum of Reichsbank currency.

[7] This was mostly money from the Berlin Reichsbank intended for some use after the war while some of the cash was apparently distributed loosely to senior Gestapo and SS officers in the vicinity to pay German soldiers their wages.

After the war, Konrad was arrested and convicted in a joint trial with SS-Gruppenführer Jürgen Stroop for participating in the liquidation of the Warsaw ghetto.

[8] During his trial, Konrad claimed to have taken photographs during the uprising only so that he could complain about Stroop's brutality to Hitler.