Friedrich Warzok
Friedrich Warzok (born September 21, 1903 in Rogowa ; † unknown) was a German camp leader and SS leader.
Warzok was a bricklayer by trade. In 1931 he became a member of the NSDAP ( membership number 573.961) and the SS (SS number 23.262), in which he achieved the rank of Hauptsturmführer in 1942 .
After the attack on Poland , he was the leader of the Volksdeutscher Selbstschutz in Warsaw from March 1940 . In October 1941 he changed to the staff of the SS and Police Leader in the Galicia district . After that he was employed as head of several forced labor camps in the Zloczow area.
As the successor to Gustav Willhaus from July 1943, he was the camp manager of the Lemberg-Janowska forced labor camp . From March 1945 he was deployed in Neuengamme concentration camp .
After the end of the Third Reich, Warzok fled to Cairo via the rat line with the help of Roman Catholic clergy .
The Simon Wiesenthal Center counts him among the ten most wanted National Socialists in the focus of the United Nations War Crimes Commission .
Trivia
In Philip Kerr's novel The Janus Project , Warzok appears as a marginal figure in his escape on the rat line.
literature
- Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd edition, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Dieter Pohl : National Socialist Extermination of Jews in Eastern Galicia 1941–1945 . Oldenbourg, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56313-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 656
- ↑ a b Friedrich Warzok on http://www.dws-xip.pl
- ↑ Janowska .
- ↑ Photo Archives .
- ↑ Nazi hunters ask Egypt for help . 20min.ch.
- ↑ From Times Wire Services: Names of 10 Most Wanted Nazis Released by Wiesenthal Center . October 14, 1987.
- ↑ (Original title: The One from the Other ). German by Cornelia Holfelde-von der Tann. Paperback edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2009, 446 pages, ISBN 978-3-499-24607-4
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Warzok, Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS leader and war criminal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 21, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rogova |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |