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    The two Treblinka trials concerning the Treblinka extermination camp personnel began in 1964. Held at Düsseldorf in West Germany, they were the two judicial...
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    second camp, Treblinka II, was an extermination camp (Vernichtungslager), referred to euphemistically as the SS-Sonderkommando Treblinka by the Nazis...
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    of Sobibor extermination camp) as the second commandant of Treblinka II Vernichtungslager from 1 September 1942 until the 1943 Jewish uprising. The Nazi...
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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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    Willi Mentz (category People convicted in the Treblinka trials)
    posted to Treblinka extermination camp and served there until November 1943. He worked at Lazaret killing station at Treblinka II Vernichtungslager and later...
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    Nazi Germany used six extermination camps (German: Vernichtungslager), also called death camps (Todeslager), or killing centers (Tötungszentren), in Central...
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    Poland for the secretive Operation Reinhard. The extermination camps (Vernichtungslager) were added to already functioning extermination through labor systems...
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  • Ernst Stengelin (category Treblinka extermination camp personnel)
    October 1943) was a German SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) who served at Treblinka and Sobibor extermination camps and was killed in the Sobibor uprising...
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    their comparative range. Barbara Schwindt, Das Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslager Majdanek: Funktionswandel im Kontext der "Endlösung", Königshausen...
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    would make it the fifth deadliest extermination camp, after Auschwitz, Treblinka, Bełżec, and Sobibór. However, the West German prosecution, citing Nazi...
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    Adalbert (ed.), Nationalsozialistische Vernichtungslager im Spiegel deutscher Strafprozesse. Bełżec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, 2nd ed., dtv, München 1978...
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  • Gustav Münzberger (category Treblinka extermination camp personnel)
    rank of SS-Unterscharführer. During the Treblinka revolt he was on holiday at home. After the closure of Treblinka, he was sent to Trieste in Italy at the...
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  • as Vernichtungslager, or extermination camps: Auschwitz, Birkenau was the Extermination Camp site Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibór and Treblinka II...
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    at Sobibor, making it the fourth-deadliest Nazi camp after Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Belzec. The camp ceased operation after a prisoner revolt which took...
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    Literatur). Schelvis: Vernichtungslager Sobibór. S. 180. Schelvis: Vernichtungslager Sobibór. S. 179/180. Schlevis: Vernichtungslager Sobibór. S. 181. Distel:...
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    1942-1943 Stichting Sobibor, p. 391. ISBN 978-83-937927-2-6 Schelvis: Vernichtungslager Sobibór. S. 306 Henry Friedlander (1995). The Origins of Nazi Genocide:...
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  • camps designated as Vernichtungslager (extermination camps): Auschwitz-Birkenau Belzec Chelmno Majdanek Maly Trostenets Sobibór Treblinka In 1978, Sebastian...
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    Ein SS-Mörder über die Ermordung Tausender Juden". Das ehemalige Vernichtungslager Chełmno (in German). Sunday news. Das Online Magazin. Archived from...
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  • Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz., Volume I, State Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, Oświęcim 1999...
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    August Miete (category People convicted in the Treblinka trials)
    Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, p. 122. Rückerl, Adalbert (1977). NS-Vernichtungslager in Spiegel...
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    Kopówka, Edward; Rytel-Andrianik, Paweł (2011), "Treblinka II – Obóz zagłady" [Monograph, chapt. 3: Treblinka II Death Camp] (PDF file, direct download 20...
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    2009-05-08 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on 2009-05-08 Schelvis, Jules. Vernichtungslager Sobibor. Published by Unrast. Hamburg, 2003 "Memorial Book - Victims...
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  • Auschwitz 1940-1945. Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz., Band I: Aufbau und Struktur des Lagers, Staatliches Museum...
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    2009-10-16. Retrieved 2010-04-13. Staff Writer (August 21, 1944), "Vernichtungslager", Time Magazine (August 21, 1944), archived from the original on 2008-12-14...
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    Thus, it served as a rough model for later Nazi Vernichtungslager, or annihilation camps, like Treblinka and Auschwitz, whose primary purpose was murder...
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    were still 11 million to be eliminated. To accomplish this special Vernichtungslager (extermination camps) were organized. The first was Chełmno in which...
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  • units. Treblinka – located along the Bug River in Poland and about 75 miles (121 km) from Warsaw, Treblinka was the second Vernichtungslager (extermination...
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    those Jews from Norway which were killed by the Nazis in death camps (Vernichtungslager), at least 22 more Jews died in Norway as a result of murder, extrajudicial...
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    International Tracing Service (ITS) initially classified the camp as a Vernichtungslager (extermination camp), due to the sheer number of victims. The town...
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    Auschwitz 1940-1945 : Studien zur Geschichte des Konzentrations- und Vernichtungslagers Auschwitz [Auschwitz 1940–1945: Studies on the history of the concentration...
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