1. Josef Hirtreiter was an SS functionary of Nazi Germany and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked at Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland.
11 Facts About Josef Hirtreiter
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In July 1946, Hirtreiter was arrested by US military occupation authorities and confessed to working at Treblinka.
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In 1951, Josef Hirtreiter was convicted of killing 10 people, mostly children aged one or two, and sentenced to life in prison.
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Josef Hirtreiter was released from prison in 1977 and died several months later in a home for the elderly in Frankfurt.
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Josef Hirtreiter served at Treblinka II from October 1942 till October 1943 at the camp-zone 2 Auffanglager receiving area.
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Josef Hirtreiter was arrested by the US military in July 1946 for having served at Hadamar Euthanasia Centre.
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American officials were unable to pin anything on Josef Hirtreiter regarding Hadamar, but he did confess to working at a camp called Malkinia.
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However, in 1949, Josef Hirtreiter was charged with murder after a West German prosecutor read about his denazification case in a newspaper article and decided to conduct his own investigation.
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Josef Hirtreiter wanted to kill the Jews himself and therefore acted as an accomplice and not just an accessory.
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Josef Hirtreiter was released from prison in 1977 due to illness.
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Josef Hirtreiter died several months later in a home for the elderly in Frankfurt.