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Dietrich "Dieter" Wisliceny (13 January 1911 – 4 May 1948) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) and one of the deputies of Adolf Eichmann, helping to organise and coordinate the large-scale deportations of the Jews across Europe during the Holocaust.
After graduating from Gymnasium in Breslau, Wisliceny began studying theology in 1930 at the University of Breslau, but dropped out after one semester.
On 1 October 1931, Wisliceny became a member of the Nazi Party and of a formation of the Sturmabteilung (SA). In 1934, he switched from the SA to the SS and became a member of the SD. Wisliceny eventually rose to the rank of SS- Hauptsturmführer (captain) in 1940; he worked in the Reich Security Main Office Referat IV B4 under Adolf Eichmann..
During implementation of the Final Solution, his task was the and liquidation of several important Jewish communities in Nazism-occupied Europe, including those of Greece, Hungary and Slovakia. Wisliceny also re-introduced the yellow badge in occupied countries; the yellow star being used to distinguish Jews from non-Jews.
Wisliceny was an important witness at the Nuremberg trials. His testimony would later prove important in the successful prosecution of Eichmann for his complicity in the Holocaust in Israel in 1961.
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