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RARE/(1907 – 1947) Nazi Gauleiter of Reichsgau Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria. He was convicted of crimes against humanity at Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp and hanged. Rare candid S.P., 3.5 x 3 in. b/w, shows Eigruber full length and in uniform walking with SS and Wehrmacht officers and generals. Boldly signed on the face in black ink. Fine.

At the Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials, held under the jurisdiction of the Dachau International Military Tribunal, he was sentenced to death by hanging on 13 May 1946 for his responsibility for crimes at Mauthausen concentration camp, where tens of thousands of prisoners died. The sentence was carried out in the prison yard at Landsberg Prison, Landsberg am Lech on 28 May 1947.