Franz Wolf (SS officer)

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Franz Wolf
SS-Oberscharführer Franz Wolf in civilian clothing
Born9 April 1907
Krummau, Austria-Hungary (today Český Krumlov, Czech Republic)
Died9 October 1999 (aged 92)
Palling, Germany
Allegiance Nazi Germany
Service / branch Schutzstaffel
Rank Oberscharführer
Unit SS-Totenkopfverbände
CommandsSobibor extermination camp

SS-Oberscharführer Franz Wolf (9 April 1907 – 9 October 1999) was a German Nazi senior squad leader serving with the Action T4 forced euthanasia program, and later, at the Sobibór extermination camp in occupied Poland during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, codenamed Operation Reinhard. Leading a normal life in West Germany for the next twenty years,[1][2] along with thousands of war criminals protected by Konrad Adenauer,[3][4] Wolf was arrested in 1964,[1][2] and indicted during the Sobibór trial with participating in the murder of 115,000 Jews. On 20 December 1966,[2] the court in Hagen sentenced him to eight years in prison for taking part in the mass murder of "at least 39,000 Jews".[1][2]

Wolf was not an SS-Officer, nor was he a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, which ceased to exist as a unit in 1940. The men of the extermination camp were under the command of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD). The guards in regular KZ/KL was under the command of SS-WVHA Amt D, which also was part of the Waffen-SS.

  1. ^ a b c "Murderers". The Forgotten Revolt. Thomas T. Blatt. Archived from the original on 4 May 2008. Retrieved 27 September 2014. 3. Wolf, Franz, warehouse clerk; arrested in 1964.
  2. ^ a b c d Chris Webb; Carmelo Lisciotto; Victor Smart (2009). "The Sobibor Trial". The Sobibor Death Camp. H.E.A.R.T – Holocaust Research Project.org. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2014. 20 December 1966, the following sentences were handed out: Franz Wolf. Arrested in 1964. Found guilty of participation in the mass murder of at least 39,000 Jews.
  3. ^ "About Simon Wiesenthal". Simon Wiesenthal Center. 2013. Section 11. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
  4. ^ Hartmann, Ralph (2010). "Der Alibiprozeß". Den Aufsatz kommentieren (in German). Ossietzky 9/2010. Archived from the original on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 27 September 2014.