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Erich Bauer [1] (26 March 1900 – 4 February 1980), sometimes referred to as "Gasmeister", was a low-level commander in the Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany and a Holocaust perpetrator. He participated in Action T4 program and later in Operation Reinhard , when he was a gas chamber operator at Sobibór extermination camp .
Erich Bauer, one of the commanders of Camp III, stated: "He [Frenzel] was one of the most brutal members of the permanent staff in the camp. His whip was very loose". [ 8 ] For instance, in spring 1943, when a worker prisoner tried to take his own life and was found dying, Frenzel shouted that Jews had no right to kill themselves; only Germans ...
Erich Fuchs: SS-Scharführer: Sergeant [6] [11] Friedrich Gaulstich: SS-Scharführer: Sergeant, killed in the revolt [6] [8] Anton Getzinger: SS-Oberscharführer: Staff sergeant, killed in an accident with a hand grenade in September 1943, several weeks before the revolt [6] Hubert Gomerski: SS-Unterscharführer: Corporal [5] [6] Siegfried ...
When SS mechanic Obercharführer Erich Bauer arrived in a truck, he noticed a dead guard lying on the ground among the prisoners and immediately shot at the prisoners with a pistol. [15] Afterwards, chaos erupted and about 600 prisoners escaped without coordination.
The Sobibor trial was a 1965–66 judicial trial in the West German prosecution of SS officers who had worked at Sobibor extermination camp; it was held in Hagen. [1] [2] It was one of a series of similar war crime trials held during the early and mid-1960s, such as the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann by Israel in Jerusalem, and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials of 1963–65, also held in West Germany.
Wirth ordered Erich Bauer to go to summon the Sicherheitspolizei from Chełm in person, since Frenzel had been unable to reach them by phone. Bauer balked, afraid that he would be attacked on the way. [260] During the night, the SS combed the camp for hiding prisoners. Many were armed and fought back. [251]
The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and its higher grades were based on four separate enactments.The first enactment, Reichsgesetzblatt I S. 1573 of 1 September 1939 instituted the Iron Cross (Eisernes Kreuz), the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross and the Grand Cross of the Iron Cross (Großkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes).
SS-Oberscharführer Erich Bauer, who also served with Bolender at Sobibór, testified about him in 1966: Bolender was in charge of Camp III. In Sobibor there was a working Jew whom Bolender ordered to box with another working Jew, and for his pleasure they hit each other almost until death.