Ernst Epple

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Ernst Epple (born January 24, 1908 in Hanau , † June 28, 1976 in Singen ) was a German SS-Unterscharfuhrer , head of the Kurowice forced labor camp and a convicted war criminal .

Life

After attending elementary school , he worked as a crane operator and machine worker . In 1936 he became a member of the SS . In November 1939 he was transferred to the subordinate school of the Waffen SS in Breslau . He then joined the 8th SS Totenkopfverband in Krakow . In the summer of 1940 he was seconded to the Lublin Special Service because of poor health . From October 15, 1941 he was deployed to the SSPF Lemberg . Until the end of 1942 he was the commandant of the Kurowice forced labor camp and in autumn 1942 he was an instructor at the SS replacement battalion in Arolsen . In spring 1943 he was drafted into the Waffen SS.

From 1945 to 1949 he was a Soviet prisoner of war. Then he worked as a crane operator in Reutlingen . From August 1960 to December 1965 and from October 1966 he was in custody . On April 29, 1968 he was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Stuttgart Regional Court for murder in 6 cases of a total of 8 people and for assisting the murder of at least 20 people in one case. In June 1976 he died in the Singen correctional facility.

literature

  • Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Extermination of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941–1945 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56313-0 .
  • Thomas Sandkühler : Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941–1944 . Dietz successor, Bonn 1996, ISBN 3-8012-5022-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Sandkühler: Final solution in Galicia. The murder of Jews in Eastern Poland and the rescue initiatives of Berthold Beitz 1941-1944. Bonn 1996, p. 436.
  2. ^ A b c Dieter Pohl: National Socialist Extermination of Jews in East Galicia 1941–1945. Munich 1997, p. 413.
  3. ↑ Christiaan F. Rüter / Dick W. de Mildt (ed.): Justice and Nazi crimes. Collection of (West) German criminal convictions for Nazi homicide crimes, 1945–2012. Vol. XXVII (serial number 671a, Munich Regional Court of April 20, 1968)
personal data
SURNAME Epple, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German SS-Unterscharfuhrer, forced labor camp commander and war criminal
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH June 28, 1976
Place of death To sing