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Franz Wolf (SS officer)

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sometime in early March 1943, as a specialist in euthanasia. The mass gassing operations at Sobibór were at full throttle already since mid-May 1942. In total, up to 200,000 (or more) mostly Jewish prisoners were murdered there. Wolf was in Sobibór until the prisoner uprising. He liked to hang around
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Wolf was not an SS-Officer, nor was he a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, which ceased to exist as a unit in 1940. The men of the extermination camp were under the command of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). The guards in regular KZ/KL was under the command of SS-WVHA Amt D, which also was part of the
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Wolf was presented with an arrest warrant in 1964 at Eppelheim as one of a selected twelve former members of the SS camp personnel, which constituted about a quarter of the German staff there. The rest went on to live normal lives. In 1966 the court in Hagen sentenced Wolf to eight years in prison
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commando that sorted the belongings of victims already "processed". Wolf, in his work as the warehouse clerk, was charged with personally killing one Jew and with helping to murder an additional 115,000 Jews. He was found guilty of having assisted in the murder of "at least 39,000 Jews", a number
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chosen arbitrarily for judicial purposes. Sentenced to eight years in prison, Wolf, age 58 (at the time of his arrest), likely served at least a part of the sentence. This is all that is known about him, other than he lived somewhere in Bavaria. His brother,
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Urteil LG Hagen, 20 December 1966, 11 Ks 1/64. The Hagen Court expressly pointed out that the total figure it arrived at made no claim to historical completeness but was merely a minimum number established for judicial
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with participating in the murder of 115,000 Jews. On 20 December 1966, the court in Hagen sentenced him to eight years in prison for taking part in the mass murder of "at least 39,000 Jews".
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Psychiatric Clinic where the killing of patients deemed beyond the reach of therapy was taking place. In the name of science, Wolf photographed the mentally ill before they were gassed.
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20 December 1966, the following sentences were handed out: Franz Wolf. Arrested in 1964. Found guilty of participation in the mass murder of at least 39,000 Jews.
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Between May 1942 and October 1943 some 200,000 to 250,000 Jews were killed at Sobibor according to the recently published
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the victims' "barber shop" where his brother was a squad leader and watch naked women having their hair shorn off by the
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J. Harrison; R. Muehlenkamp; J. Myers; S. Romanov; N. Terry (December 2011).
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Together with his brother Josef Wolf (1900–1943), he was sent to Sobibór
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forest brigade, cutting trees for the fuelling of corpse cremation
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Little is known about his private life except that Wolf came from
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Jewish Working Kommando's in the Aktion Reinhard Death Camps
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Chris Webb; Carmelo Lisciotto; Victor Smart (2009).
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Index

Franz Wolf

SS-Oberscharführer
Krummau
Austria-Hungary
Český Krumlov
Czech Republic
Palling
Germany
Nazi Germany

Schutzstaffel

Oberscharführer

SS-Totenkopfverbände
Sobibor extermination camp
SS-Oberscharführer
Action T4
forced euthanasia
Sobibór extermination camp
occupied Poland
the Holocaust
Operation Reinhard
Konrad Adenauer
Sobibór trial
Krummau
Wehrmacht
Hadamar Euthanasia Centre
Heidelberg

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