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Franz Reichleitner

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Reichleitner, a man in his late forties, with an Austrian accent, was dressed always with great elegance and wore gloves. He did not have direct contact with the Jews and the transports. He knew that he could rely on his subordinates, who were very frightened of him. He ran the camp with German
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from 1 September 1942 until the camp's closure on or about 17 October 1943. As the commanding officer of the camp, Franz Reichleitner directly perpetrated the
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before assuming Wirth's position of chief supervisor at Hartheim. Reichleitner was also partly responsible for getting Stangl a supervising job in T-4.
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area of Italy to kill Jews and quell the partisan resistance movement there. Reichleitner was killed by partisans on 3 January 1944 at
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went smoothly, and all the transports that arrived on a certain day were liquidated. He never left them for the following day...
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In autumn 1943, like so many of the perpetrators of Operation Reinhard, Reichleitner was then transferred to the
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Into That Darkness: from Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, a study of Franz Stangl, the commandant of Treblinka
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On one occasion, when an old man from the transports slapped SS officer
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Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich. Wer war was vor und nach 1945?
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The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution
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visited Sobibór on 12 February 1943, he promoted Reichleitner to
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Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
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in 1937 as member number 357,065. He began his career as a
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Nazi concentration camp commandants killed in World War II
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The Holocaust: Lest we forget: Extermination camp Sobibor
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Index

Franz Karl Reichleitner

Austria-Hungary
Fiume
Adriatic Littoral Zone
Nazi Germany
Schutzstaffel
Hauptsturmführer
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Sobibór extermination camp
SS
Nazi Germany
Operation Reinhard
the Holocaust
Sobibór extermination camp
genocide
Jews
Nazi Party
Schutzstaffel
Gestapo
Linz
Action T4
Hartheim Euthanasia Centre
Franz Stangl
Christian Wirth
Steyr
Obersturmführer
Odilo Globocnik
Sobibór extermination camp
Franz Stangl

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