1. Erich Fuchs was an SS functionary who worked for the Action T4 mass-murder program, and for the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust.
12 Facts About Erich Fuchs
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Erich Fuchs was charged with participation in the Holocaust and on 20 December 1966, found guilty of being an accessory to the mass murder of at least 79,000 people.
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Erich Fuchs joined the Nazi Party and the SA in May 1933.
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Erich Fuchs served as Dr Irmfried Eberl's driver while Eberl was medical director of the T-4 killing centers at Brandenburg and Bernburg.
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Erich Fuchs was present at many of the gassings of the disabled people.
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Erich Fuchs remained at Sobibor for at least four weeks.
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Now an SS-Scharfuhrer, Erich Fuchs went to Treblinka extermination camp, under the command of his old boss Eberl.
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In March 1943 Erich Fuchs was removed from Action T4, and his work in mass murder and genocide was done.
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Erich Fuchs was rearrested and tried at the Sobibor Trial in Hagen.
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Erich Fuchs was charged with participation in the mass murder of approximately 3,600 Jews.
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On 20 December 1966, Erich Fuchs was found guilty of being an accessory to the mass murder of at least 79,000 Jews and sentenced to four years imprisonment.
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Erich Fuchs was married for the sixth time during the trial.