Ernst Zierke | |
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 Ernst Zierke with German police unit in Italy | |
| Born | 6 May 1905 Köslin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 23 May 1972 (aged 67) Celle, Lower Saxony, West Germany |
| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
| Service |  Schutzstaffel |
| Rank | Unterscharführer (Junior section leader) |
| Unit | Bełżec Sobibor Camp III |
Ernst Zierke (6 May 1905 – 23 May 1972) was a low-ranking member in the SS who took part in the Aktion T4 forced euthanasia program in Nazi Germany, and after the invasion of Poland worked at Bełżec and Sobibór extermination camps during Operation Reinhard. Zierke helped to perpetrate the Holocaust. He was charged with being an accessory to the murder of 360,000 Jews at death camps, acquitted twice, in the Belzec and Sobibor trials of 1965 on grounds of acting under duress and set free.[1]