The German Army Major Who Stopped the SS Liquidate a Jewish Ghetto And Lived

Albert Battel was born in Klein-Pramsen Prussian Silesia. After serving in World War I, he studied economics and jurisprudence in Munich and Breslau (Wrocław). At age 50 he was called into service as a reserve officer and he was stationed in Przemyśl in southern Poland as the adjutant to the local military commander, Major Max Liedtke (responsible for the Jewish workforce). During the first day of the SS Action to resettle the Jews in the Przemyśl Ghetto an extraordinary rescue took place: Lt. Dr Albert Battel, requested of the Gestapo that Jews who worked for the German Wehrmacht should be excluded from the deportations, whether they had work permits or not. When his request was not granted, Wehrmacht forces took control of the bridges that connected the two parts of the city and blocked all transports.


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