1. Heinrich Arthur Matthes was a German SS commander during the Nazi era.
13 Facts About Heinrich Matthes
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Heinrich Matthes served as a deputy commandant of Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland.
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Heinrich Matthes was tried in the 1964 Treblinka trials, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.
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Heinrich Matthes then became a tailor, but changed careers to nurse.
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Heinrich Matthes trained at Sonnenstein and took his exam there.
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Heinrich Matthes worked in the T4 photo laboratory and then served in the T4 unit with Organization Todt in Russia.
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Heinrich Matthes was remembered by fellow Treblinka SS officer Franz Suchomel in the following way:.
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Heinrich Matthes took eight sick inmates to the Lazarett and had them shot.
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Heinrich Matthes as remembered by Jerzy Rajgrodzki, a prisoner in the extermination area:.
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Heinrich Matthes used to beat the prisoners with a completely expressionless, apathetic look on his face, as if the beatings were part of his daily routine.
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Heinrich Matthes always saw to it that the roll-call area would always be extremely clean.
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Heinrich Matthes later served in Trieste with the other Operation Reinhard perpetrators.
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Heinrich Matthes then had the installation built for burning the corpses.