Original upload date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Archive date: Sun, 07 Nov 2021 20:47:03 GMT
This video shows the place where Christian Wirth lived when he was commandant of the Bełżec death camp. He was the first commandant of the Belzec death camp and in the summer of 1942 became the overs
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eer of the Aktion Reinhard operations which led to the deaths of at least 1.4m people in the death camps of Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor.
Despite being one of the greatest mass murderers in history, very littls is known about Christian Wirth. He had previously served in the CID in Stuttgart and was noted for results - probably through the use of beatings to get confessions.
Unlike most of the other criminals of the holocaust, Wirth was not a young man. He was born in 1885. Despite being in his mid fifties Christian Wirth possessed a great deal of physical strength which turned to violence probably due to mental problems caused by his asthma.
This film shows the house where he lived in Belzec during his time as commandant there before moving to a flat in Lublin airport when he was replaced by his deputy Gottlieb Hering as commandant.
The house became vacant following the death of the occupier in December 2006.
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