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    Christian Wirth (German: [vɪʁt] ; 24 November 1885 – 26 May 1944) was a German SS officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary...
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  • (1885–1944), German Nazi SS concentration camp commander involved in the Action T4 program and Operation Reinhard Christian Wirth (politician) (born 1963)...
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    symbols. He co-founded the SS-organization Ahnenerbe but was later pushed out by Heinrich Himmler. Born in Utrecht on 6 May 1885, Wirth studied Flemish Dutch...
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    Commissioner for the German Film Industry. Christian WirthSS-Obersturmführer. He was a senior German police and SS officer during the program to exterminate...
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    Globocnik made a surprise visit to Treblinka on 26 August 1942 with Christian Wirth and Wirth's adjutant from Bełżec, Josef Oberhauser, Eberl was dismissed on...
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    Ahnenerbe (redirect from SS Ahnenerbe)
    the Berlin headquarters of the SS where he discussed his desire to launch a prehistoric research institute. Both Wirth and the agriculturalist Richard...
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    Schutzstaffel (redirect from SS)
    prisoners. The most well-known SS doctor, Josef Mengele, served as a medical officer at Auschwitz under the command of Eduard Wirths of the camp's medical corps...
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    commandants of the camp including Kriminalpolizei officers SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth and SS-Hauptsturmführer Gottlieb Hering, had been involved in...
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    Gottlieb Hering (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain). SS-Scharführer Heinrich Unverhau, who served at Bełżec, testified about him: "Hering and Wirth were definitely...
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    Alb-Donau in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Christian Wirth, called 'Christian the cruel', (1885–1944), German policeman, SS-Sturmbannführer, first commander of...
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  • The Treblinka extermination camp was run by the SS, a Nazi paramilitary organization, with the help of Eastern European Trawnikis (Hiwis), who were collaborationist...
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  • Franz Stangl (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    [page needed] At Hartheim, Stangl served under Christian Wirth as an assistant supervisor in charge of security. When Wirth was succeeded by Franz Reichleitner,...
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  • Schutzstaffel (SS) grew from eight members to over a quarter of a million Waffen-SS and over a million Allgemeine-SS members. Other members included the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
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  • independent, it became the ancestral heritage branch of the SS. Headed by Dr. Hermann Wirth, it was dedicated primarily to archaeological research, but...
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    Julleuchter (redirect from SS Julleuchter)
    replace Christian rites. The Julleuchter and other symbols were also meant to serve as a consolation to women who, by having married into the SS, had to...
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    Franz Reichleitner (category SS-Hauptsturmführer)
    Steyr. On 1 September 1942, at the rank of SS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant), on the orders of Wirth and Odilo Globocnik, Reichleitner took command...
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  • Josef Oberhauser (category SS-Obersturmführer)
    the camp commandant of Belzec (Christian Wirth), which saw him appointed as liaison officer to the staff of the senior SS and Police Leader and moreover...
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    demeanour toward the inmates raised suspicions among SS guards, but her supervisor Eduard Wirths favoured her and overlooked any questionable behaviour...
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    Paul Bredow (category SS non-commissioned officers)
    with a pistol, fifty a day, which was fully approved by his superior Christian Wirth. Bredow was transferred to San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste...
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    Heinrich Himmler (category Reichsführer-SS)
    politician who was the 4th Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (Protection Squadron; SS), a leading member of the German Nazi Party, and one of the most powerful...
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  • Herman Wirth, who in July 1935 founded the SS-affiliated research organisation, the Ahnenerbe. After completing his doctorate, he became Wirth's assistant...
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  • Georg Konrad Morgen (category SS-Sturmbannführer)
    rumors that Christian Wirth – who was, unbeknownst to Morgen, supervisor of the extermination centers of Operation Reinhard – had permitted SS officers to...
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  • Alongside Christian Wirth, Höfle had chief authority of Operation Reinhard beside Globočnik. At the beginning of the operation, he held the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer...
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    women, and children were murdered. The SS officers responsible for the Aktion T4, including Christian Wirth, Franz Stangl, and Irmfried Eberl, were all...
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    Ukrainian members of the SS under the command of SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth, former commander of Belzec extermination camp. Wirth was killed by Yugoslav...
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  • Kurt Gerstein (category SS-Obersturmführer)
    technical disinfection services and worked with Odilo Globocnik and Christian Wirth on the technical aspects of mass murder in the extermination camps...
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  • well!" - Hauptmann Wirth has ordered. The people stand on each other's feet. 700 - 800 on 25 square metres, in 45 cubic metres! The SS physically squeezes...
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    Odilo Globocnik (category Austrian Waffen-SS personnel)
    There are indications that Globočnik, along with a chief accomplice Christian Wirth, may have originated the concept of the extermination camp and industrialised...
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    Irmfried Eberl (category SS-Obersturmführer)
    Hauptsturmführer Christian Wirth came to Treblinka and kicked up a terrific row. And then one day Dr. Eberl was no longer there... According to SS-Unterscharführer...
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    partisans. However, a group of SS officials arrived later that night, including Gottlieb Hering and Christian Wirth. Wirth ordered Erich Bauer to go to...
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