12 Facts About Otto Stadie

Otto Stadie was a German nurse and member of the Action T4, the Nazi forced euthanasia programme.

Otto Stadie was convicted in the first Treblinka trial of 1965.

Otto Stadie was born in Berlin, where he completed his early schooling and then trained as a nurse in a clinic for venereal disease in the city.

In 1940, Stadie was assigned to the Fuhrer's headquarters with the Action T4 Nazi euthanasia administration.

Otto Stadie arrived at Treblinka extermination camp in July 1942 at the commencement of the Grossaktion Warsaw resulting in the death of about 265,000 Ghetto inmates prior to the end of September.

Otto Stadie remained at Treblinka for eight months with the rank of Sergeant Major.

Otto Stadie supervised the Trawniki men in the same capacity.

Otto Stadie was transferred back to Lublin reservation in July 1943 ahead of the Treblinka prisoner uprising, and in 1944 was sent to Trieste, Italy, where the Risiera di San Sabba killing centre was being set up.

Otto Stadie served there as administrative assistant to Franz Stangl.

Otto Stadie was captured by the Americans in 1945 and released in Italy as person of no particular interest.

Otto Stadie lived in Nordenau resort village in West Germany for the next 20 years and ran a souvenir store.

Otto Stadie was arrested in 1965 due to new evidence submitted by the Institute for Contemporary History, and sentenced at Dusseldorf to seven years' imprisonment during the first trial of the former SS men from Treblinka.