Albert Rum

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Albert Franz Rum (born June 8, 1890 in Berlin ; † 1970 ) was a German SS-Unterscharfuhrer and involved in " Aktion T4 " and " Aktion Reinhardt " in the Treblinka extermination camp . Rum was sentenced to three years in prison by the Düsseldorf Regional Court on September 3, 1965 in the Treblinka trials for his crimes committed in the Treblinka extermination camp .

Life

Rum, the son of a carpenter, grew up with eight other siblings. After eight years of attending school, he worked as a bellhop. Rum completed a three-year waiter's apprenticeship in the Berlin Hotel "Kronprinz", which he completed in 1909. He then worked in his profession in England and France. In the autumn of 1913 he came back to Berlin. After the outbreak of World War I , he was a soldier with the Hirschberger Jäger from 1915 to 1918. He then worked as a waiter, conductor, landlord and owner of a linen business. Most recently he was a waiter in the Berlin nightclub “Die Insel”. Rum, married since 1922, became a widower in 1945.

The Nazi Party he joined in March 1933 and was starting from 1937 as a block Walter, d. H. Helps a block manager active. Through a customer in "Die Insel" he came into contact with Werner Blankenburg , one of the main people responsible for the National Socialist murders in action T4. In Blankenburg's office, he was offered a job in the Aktion-T4 headquarters in Berlin , which Rum accepted with an obligation of confidentiality. There he was busy cataloging and taking photographs as well as creating files for the "euthanasia" victims. Due to illness - he could not stand the chemical vapors - he asked for a transfer and took a job as a security guard in a labor camp on Polish territory. Rum was dressed as an SS-Unterscharfuhrer and was deployed in the Treblinka extermination camp from December 1942. There he was first used for a few weeks in the lower camp in the "handling" of the arriving "Jewish transports" and later continuously in the upper camp with the "corpse transport command". Rum was briefly transferred from Treblinka to the Sobibor extermination camp in November 1943 and then went on home leave.

After the "Aktion Reinhardt" ended, Rum, like most of the "Aktion Reinhardt" staff, was transferred to the Adriatic Coastal Operation Zone in Trieste in early 1944 . Here, with the rank of police chief sergeant, he was a member of the " Special Department Operation R ", which served the "extermination of Jews", the confiscation of Jewish property and the fight against partisans . After a car accident he was taken to a hospital in Udine and from there until June 1946 to a hospital on Timmendorfer Strand . Rum then lived in Berlin and worked there as a waiter until he retired in 1955.

As part of the investigation into the crimes in the Treblinka extermination camp, Rum came under the sights of the investigative authorities and was arrested in the early 1960s. The Treblinka trial against ten defendants took place from October 12, 1964 to September 3, 1965 before the Düsseldorf Regional Court. The subject matter of the proceedings comprised the gassing of at least 700,000 predominantly Jewish people as well as the fatal abuse, shooting, killing and hanging of individual prisoners and also the mangling by Barry , the service dog of the camp commandant Kurt Franz . Jewish survivors testified that Rum used the whip to mistreat prisoners. Rum took part in the shooting of the remaining 25-man squad from Treblinka, as he himself admitted. Rum was sentenced to three years in prison for complicity in the collective murder of at least 100,000 people.

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  1. ↑ Treblinka Process ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the web archive archive.today )
personal data
SURNAME Rum, Albert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rum, Albert Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Unterscharführer in the Treblinka extermination camp
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 1970