Heinrich Barbl

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Heinrich Barbl (born March 3, 1900 in Sarleinsbach , Upper Austria ; date of death after 1965) was an Austrian craftsman and from 1940 involved in the crimes of Nazi "euthanasia" and the Holocaust . Among other things, he was deployed in the Nazi killing center in Hartheim and in the Belzec extermination camp , where he held the rank of SS Rottenführer and achieved the rank of SS Unterscharführer.

Life

Heinrich Barbl worked at the nitrogen works in Linz (today Borealis Agrolinz Melamine ). In his application for admission to the NSDAP, Barbl indicated his profession as " auxiliary mechanic ".

After the annexation of Austria , Barbl became a member of the NSDAP and the SS .

After the war, Barbl was interrogated by the Austrian police and questioned as a witness by the Linz Regional Court in the 1960s, but not brought to justice. Information about his further life or death is not known.

Hartheim killing center

With the beginning of the T4 campaign in Ostmark, Barbl worked as a craftsman in the Hartheim killing center . There he worked as a “punch” at the crematorium and made metal signs with the names of the dead for the urns , which were filled with any ashes and sent to the relatives of the victims. Like the stokers, he worked in close proximity to the killings every day and drank a lot of alcohol.

Operation Reinhardt

In front of the external headquarters of the Belzec extermination camp, Heinrich Barbl, last row on the far right

In 1942, Barbl accompanied his superior Christian Wirth to Lublin, who in March 1942 took over command of the newly created Belzec extermination camp . With Erich Fuchs , Barbl installed the lines for the gas chambers in Belzec, where he was deployed from January to April 1942 and again from autumn 1942 to summer 1943. From April to autumn 1942 he worked on the installation of the gas chambers in Camp III of the Sobibor extermination camp . He called himself a house plumber and bragged about making the gas chambers look like they were proper shower rooms. Barbl was present in Sobibor at the first “test” of the gas chamber with 30 to 40 selected Jewish women. He reported: “Red Cross nurses accompanied the selected women who were transported by bus. They helped them undress. "

In Belzec, Barbl was often drunk on duty and was considered the garrison “idiot” who was mocked. However, no one was sure whether he was really stupid or just pretending to avoid difficult tasks. The camp commandant, SS-Hauptsturmführer Gottlieb Hering , did not allow him to carry a weapon when executing the elderly and the sick, "because he is so stupid that he kills us and not the Jews". Nevertheless, Barbl was not immune from punishment from his commanders, he was often flogged by Christian Wirth because he was so drunk. In the winter of 1942/43 Gottlieb Hering had him locked in a concrete bunker for several days without bread and water for an unknown reason.

Together with other perpetrators from the "T4 Reinhard Network", Barbl was deployed in the Trieste area from the end of 1943 to "fight partisans".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Webb: The Belzec Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance. Ibidem-Verlag, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-8382-0826-8 , p. 255; limited preview in Google Book search
  2. ^ A b Henry Friedlander : The way to the Nazi genocide - From euthanasia to the final solution , Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-8270-0265-6 , p. 375/376.
  3. ^ Lid of an urn from the "Euthanasia" facility in Hartheim / Linz , Remember.at, mediation project of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture on the subject of "National Socialism and the Holocaust"
  4. ↑ Brigitte Kepplinger: The Hartheim Killing Institution 1940-1945. In: Brigitte Kepplinger , Gerhart Marckhgott , Hartmut Reese (ed.): Hartheim Killing Institution. OÖLA, Linz 2013, ISBN 978-3-902801-13-5 , p. 103; PDF online ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eduhi.at
  5. ^ Sara Berger: Experts of the destruction. The T4 Reinhardt network in the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka camps. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-268-4 (diss.), P. 401.
  6. ↑ Jules Schelvis : Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. Ed. and with a foreword by Bob Moore. Transl. from the Dutch by Karin Dixon. Bloomsbury Academic, New York, London 2014, ISBN 9781472589064 , p. 247; limited preview in Google Book search
  7. ↑ Biographies of SS-men - Sobibor Interviews. In: www.sobiborinterviews.nl. Retrieved May 8, 2016 .
  8. ↑ Jules Schelvis : Sobibor: A History of a Nazi Death Camp. Ed. and with a foreword by Bob Moore. Transl. from the Dutch by Karin Dixon. Bloomsbury Academic, New York, London 2014, ISBN 9781472589064 , p. 100 f .; limited preview in Google Book search
  9. ↑ a b Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide - Chapter 6. In: www.jewishgen.org. Retrieved May 8, 2016 .
  10. ↑ Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide - Chapter 8. In: www.jewishgen.org. Retrieved May 8, 2016 .
  11. ^ Sara Berger: Experts of the destruction. The T4 Reinhardt network in the Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka camps. Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86854-268-4 , p. 401.
personal data
SURNAME Barbl, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian SS man
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Sarleinsbach , Austria
DATE OF DEATH after 1965