List of people responsible for the Treblinka extermination camp

The Treblinka extermination camp was run by the SS, a Nazi paramilitary organization, with the help of Eastern European Trawnikis (Hiwis), who were collaborationist auxiliary police recruited directly from Soviet POW camps. The Trawnikis served at all the major extermination camps, including Treblinka.Also: Treblinka was part of Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of the three million Jews living in the General Government of German-occupied Poland. It is believed that between somewhere between 800,000 and 1,200,000 people were murdered in its gas chambers, almost all of whom were Jews. More people were murdered at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp besides Auschwitz.

The camp consisted of two separate units: Treblinka I and the Treblinka II extermination camp (Vernichtungslager). The first was a forced-labour camp (Arbeitslager) whose prisoners worked in the gravel pit or irrigation area and in the forest, where they cut wood to fuel the crematoria. Between 1941 and 1944, more than half of its 20,000 inmates died from summary executions, hunger, disease and mistreatment.

Meanwhile, the first official German trial for war crimes committed at Treblinka was also held in 1964, with the former camp personnel first brought to justice at that time, some twenty years after the end of the war.

List of individuals responsible NameRankFunction and NotesCitation Nazi leadershipHeinrich HimmlerReichsführer main architect of the Holocaust Odilo GlobocnikSS-Hauptsturmführer and SS-Polizeiführer (Captain and SS Police Chief) SS-Gruppenführer and SS and Polizei Leader of Lublin. head of Operation ReinhardHermann HöfleSS-Sturmbannführer (Major) coordinator of Operation ReinhardChristian WirthSS-Hauptsturmführer (Captain)inspector for Operation ReinhardSS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant) head of death camp construction during Operation ReinhardErwin LambertSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal)head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard (large gas chambers) Treblinka commandantsSS-Sturmbannführer (Major), Commandant of Treblinka I Arbeitslager, 15 November 1941 – July 1944 (cleanup) head of the forced-labour campIrmfried EberlSS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant), Commandant of , 11 July 1942 – 26 August 1942transferred to Berlin due to incompetenceFranz StanglSS-Obersturmführer (First Lieutenant), 2nd Commandant of , 1 September 1942 – August 1943 transferred to Treblinka from Sobibor extermination campKurt FranzSS-Untersturmführer (Second Lieutenant), last Commandant of , August (gassing) – November 1943 promoted from deputy commandant in August 1943 following camp prisoner revolt Deputy commandantsKarl PötzingerSS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant), Deputy commandant of head of cremationHeinrich MatthesSS-Scharführer (Sergeant), Deputy commandantchief of the extermination area StaffFritz SchmidtSS-Sturmbannführer (Major)gas chambersLorenz HackenholtSS-Hauptscharführer (Master Sergeant)gas chambers, gas pipes Kurt KüttnerSS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant)lower camp of Treblinka IIWilly MätzigSS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) unloading ramp Herbert FlossSS-Scharführer (Sergeant)cremation pyres Erich FuchsSS-Scharführer (Sergeant)generator, gassing engine Josef HirtreiterSS-Scharführer (Sergeant)unloading ramp terror Karl Emil LudwigSS-Scharführer (Sergeant) head of the Waldkommando forest brigade Gustav MünzbergerSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal)gas chambersSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) stabbed to death by inmate Meir Berliner on at roll call selection Paul BredowSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal)head of Kommando RotHans HingstSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) gas chambers SS-Unterscharführer (Corporal)corpse detailWilli MentzSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal)Lazaret killing stationAugust MieteSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) Lazaret Max MöllerSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) Lazaret Willi PostSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) Head of Ukrainian Guard, Volksdeutsche SS squad leaderSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) gas chambersKarl SchifferSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) command of Ukrainian guard unit of 12 Trawnikis overseeing farmhouse construction Ernst StengelinSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal)killed in attack on 14 October 1943Franz SuchomelSS-Unterscharführer (Corporal) Goldjuden supervisorOtto StadieSS-Stabsscharführer (Staff Squad Leader)camp administration Ivan MarchenkoWachmann (Guard), presumed Ukrainiangas chambersFeodor FedorenkoWachmann (Guard) gas chambers

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Photograph of excavator used for corpses at Treblinka II.

See also: Episode Guide: Overview. Treblinka (camp rife with chaos due to minimal preparation), and Corruption (Auschwitz only): Episode 4.

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