Treblinka photographs

The Treblinka photographs were taken by deputy commandant Kurt Franz and discovered in his home and the time of his arrest in 1959 in West Germany. In this video I also show you around the site of the former death camp, filmed in February 2009.

Kurt Franz was born in 1914 in Düsseldorf. His father was a merchant and he also had a sister. After attending the elementary school in Düsseldorf for 12 years, he worked as a cook for the restaurant "Hirschquelle" before he gave his final exam.

He enlisted in the German army in 1935 and eventually entered service in the SS. He was sent into the Buchenwald concentration camp before being transferred in 1939 of the Action T4 'euthanasia' project.

In late 1941 or early 1942 he was sent to the Belzec death camp. Later he assumed the post of deputy commandant at the Treblinka camp under Franz Stangl. Stangl later suggested that he was frightened of Franz.

Franz was known for his unusual amount of cruelty and sadism. Franz had a dog Barry which had originally belonged to Stangl. The dog was a Saint Bernard which is usually a very friendly breed. This dog however had a mixture of another breed which may have been the cause for its violence. The dog was trained to bite the genitalia of the prisoners under the command 'Man get that Dog'. However once out of Franz's possession the dog behaved normally and died in 1948 in the care of a doctor in Ostrów Mazowiecki..
During the revolt in Treblinka on 2 August 1943, Franz was visiting a lady friend in Kosów Lacki and was too drunk to do anything about the escape.
He was also drunk when arrested in 1959 when these photographs were found by the police. In 1965 he was sentenced to life. During his imprisonment he complained that he got a life sentence whilst others got off and was very bitter that he had not been released for his wife's funeral in 1992. He was released in 1993 for health reasons. Kurt Franz died in Wuppertal in June 1998.
Franz along with Wagner from Sobibór and their superior Christian Wirth are amongst the most cruel sadists of the war.
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Видео Treblinka photographs канала Alan Heath