Zeug received survivor testimonies from Yad Vashem which allowed him to examine German national archives for more clues. His inquiry led to the first arrest of Treblinka deputy commandant on 2 December 1959. The crimes committed in the General Government territory of occupied Poland were investigated by the Central Agency from July 1959 by the German specialist in the Nazi prosecution Dietrich Zeug, present at the Eichmann trial. On 3 March 1951 Hirtreiter was sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1977). ![]() He was charged with participation in the mass-murder of Jews, particularly the killing of more than 10 persons, including infants. Further investigations showed that Hirtreiter had been stationed at the Treblinka extermination camp, where he supervised the victims' disrobing prior to their gassing. Hirtreiter could not be shown to have been criminally involved at Hadamar however, he did confess to having worked in a camp near the Polish village of Małkinia where Jews were killed in a gas chamber. Although not focused on Treblinka from the beginning, and not serving as an lead-in to the later Treblinka trials, the Hirtreiter trial is viewed by some historians as being part of these. In 1946 Josef Hirtreiter was arrested in the course of the Allied investigations into the killing of disabled persons in the Hadamar killing centre. In the subsequent years, separate trials dealt with personnel of the Bełżec (1963–65), Sobibor (1966), and Majdanek (1975–81) extermination camps. Held at Düsseldorf in West Germany, they were the two judicial trials in a series of similar war crime trials held during the early 1960s, such as the Jerusalem Adolf Eichmann trial (1961) and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials (1963–65), as a result of which the general public came to realize the extent of the crimes that some two decades earlier had been perpetrated in occupied Poland by German bureaucrats and their willing executioners. After acceptance and a year’s training at the police school in Linz, he served his probation, first in the Traffic Division and then with the Riot Squad.The two Treblinka trials concerning the Treblinka extermination camp personnel began in 1964. Five years later, in 1931, he realised his job held no further prospects for him, and he applied to join the Federal Austrian Police. When Franz was eight years old, in 1916, his father died of malnutrition, after which his mother remarried to a widower a year later, thus Franz gained two step- brothers.Īfter leaving school aged 15, he became an apprentice in the weaving trade, and three years later qualified as a master weaver, the youngest in Austria. His father was already advanced in years, whereas his mother was still a young woman, they had one other child, a daughter ten years older than Franz. Stangl and Franz outside the German Quarter in Treblinkaįranz Paul Stangl was born in Altmunster, a market town on the western shore of the Traunsee, near Gmunden, in Upper Austria, on 26 March 1908. Recommended publications Recommended publications.Guest Article - Resistance in Denmark Resistance in Denmark.Testimony by David Wdowinski at the Eichmann Trial.Testimony by Avraham Gordon at the Eichmann Trial.Report on a Duty Journey Through Poland - Franke Gricksch.Lublin Judenrat Meeting - March 31 1942.Izbica - Eyewitness Accounts of Deportations.Eichmann in Hungary - Meeting at Mauthausen.The Extermination of the Jews in Sosnowiec and Bendzin.Auschwitz - Birkenau Gassing Facilities.Pinchas Epstein - Czestochowa to Treblinka.Tadeusz Pankiewicz - Krakow Ghetto Account.Polish Fortnightly Review - Slaughter of the Jews in Poland.Polish Fortnightly Review - The German Rule in Poland.Polish Fortnightly Review - The Real New Order: Terror.Chaim Rumkowski Speech - Give Me Your Children.Franceska Mann - Act of Resistance in Birkenau.Henje Kozszuchowicz - Surviving the Occupation Years 1939-1944.Ernst Krombach - From the Ruhr to Izbica.HHS members articles HHS members articles.Paris - France - Deportation to Auschwitz.Izieu - France - Deportation of Children to Auschwitz.Apeldoorn - The Netherlands - Deportation to Auschwitz.Concentration Camps Concentration camps.Lublin - Globocnik Austrian Connections. ![]() William - Billy Rutherford Remembering William - Billy Rutherford.Robert Kuwalek Remembering Robert Kuwalek.Holocaust Memorial Day Holocaust Memorial Day - Remembrance.
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