Alfred Ittner

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Alfred Jakob Ittner (born January 13, 1907 in Kulmbach ; † November 3, 1976 ibid) was a German SS-Oberscharführer and was involved in " Aktion T4 " and " Aktion Reinhardt ".

Life

Ittner, a commercial clerk by profession, became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 30.805) in February 1926 , left the party in the summer of 1927 and rejoined it after the National Socialists came to power . The SA entered Ittner at the 1936th Through his nephew Willy Schneider he got a job as an accountant with the NSDAP / AO in 1934 . As a higher-paid job, Ittner accepted a job as an accountant in the Aktion-T4 headquarters in November , where he worked until spring 1942.

At the end of March / beginning of April 1942, Ittner joined the SS with Karl Frenzel , Ernst Bauch, Erich Hermann Bauer , Kurt Bolender , Herbert Floss, Hubert Gomerski , Ferdinand Grömer, Hermann Michel, Hans-Heinz Schütt , Karl Steubl, Josef Vallaster and others Police chief Odilo Globocnik ordered to Lublin . From the end of April 1942 to the end of July 1942 he was deployed in the Sobibor extermination camp . There he was the accountant responsible for the confiscation of the victims' valuables; the naked transport prisoners had to deliver gold and their valuables to him on their way to the gas chambers. Ittner was sitting at a counter behind glass at the end of the road to the gas chambers . Next to them was mostly a young Jewish camp inmate who was supposed to instill confidence in the transport Jews. He was called "Gold Jew" or "Little Max".

After differences of opinion with the camp commandant Franz Stangl about the use of the stolen valuables, he was transferred to a work detachment in Camp III, where he had to monitor Jewish prisoners digging mass graves. He tried in vain at Stangl to be able to leave this post. Ittner was only able to return to his post at T4 headquarters after an intervention by Friedrich Lorent , the chief economic manager of the T4 central office. His post at the counter was later taken over by Hans-Heinz Schütt and Herbert Floss.
Ittner declared after the end of the war:

“I saw that the frail and sick Jews were shot at the pits in Camp 3 [of the Sobibór extermination camp]. I always turned away during these executions and because of this I have no idea who the real shooter was. It was more than a mess there ”.

After the end of the war he worked as an unskilled worker and was arrested in the course of the investigation in the early 1960s. In the Sobibor trial in 1966, Ittner was finally sentenced to four years in prison for complicity in the collective murder of at least 68,000 people. Ittner died in Kulmbach in 1976.

literature

  • Dick de Mildt: In the Name of the people: Perpetrators of Genocide in the Post-War Prosecution in West-Germany - The 'Euthanasia' an 'Aktion Reinhard' Trial Cases . Kluwer law International, Netherlands 1996, ISBN 90-411-0185-3 .
  • Information material from Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz eV: Belzec , Reader - based on a previously unpublished manuscript by the historian and director of the Belzec Memorial Robert Kuwałek
  • Jules Schelvis : Sobibór extermination camp. Unrast-Verlag . Hamburg / Münster 2003. ISBN 3-89771-814-6

See also

  • Oskar Gröning , SS accountant in Auschwitz, sentenced in 2015 in the Lüneburg Auschwitz trial

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp. P. 82
  2. ↑ a b Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp. P. 43
  3. ↑ Schelvis: Sobibór extermination camp. P. 304
  4. ↑ The judiciary sharpens its view on Auschwitz Article on zeit.de from July 21, 2015


personal data
SURNAME Ittner, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ittner, Alfred Jakob (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS Oberscharführer - involved in "Aktion T4" and "Aktion Reinhardt"
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Kulmbach
DATE OF DEATH 3rd November 1976
Place of death Kulmbach