Karl Schluch

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Karl Schluch (born October 25, 1905 in Lauenburg ; † unknown) was SS-Unterscharführer and involved in " Aktion T4 " and " Aktion Reinhardt ".

Career

Schluch was born out of wedlock and grew up with his grandparents. After attending elementary school, he worked as a farm laborer and completed training as a nurse from 1930, which he graduated from the Charité in Berlin in 1934 with "Very Good". In 1935 Schluch moved to the Herzberge Institution . He married in 1936 and had a son in 1937. The Nazi Party he joined in 1936, having already from 1933 when SA was active -Sanitätssturm.

Action T4

His service for " Aktion T4 " took place in mid-June 1940. Schluch was employed as a nurse and transport attendant in the Grafeneck and Hadamar euthanasia centers. After the official end of euthanasia, Schluch was used by the Todt Organization from late 1941 to March 1942 to transport the wounded on the Eastern Front.

Action Reinhardt

Thereafter, from June 1942 to early summer 1943, he was deployed in the Belzec extermination camp . It was used on the so-called hose, where it tried to calm the Jewish victims after they had left the undressing room. He deceived the Jewish victims on their way to the gas chamber by telling them that they would be bathed. From autumn 1943 he was in the Poniatowa forced labor camp until it was liquidated as part of the harvest festival . It was in the late 1943 surgical zone Adriatisches Küstenland for special department use R to Trieste added that the "extermination", the confiscated Jewish property and the antipartisan served.

After the end of the war

After the end of the war he was arrested by the US Army and interned in a prisoner of war camp, from which he was released to Kassel in early July 1945 . He then worked in agriculture, from 1948 to 1952 as a construction worker and then again as a nurse in the psychiatry in Bedburg-Hau .

In the Belzec trial , Schluch was charged with aiding and abetting community murder in 360,000 cases and was put out of court on January 30, 1964 due to an imperfect order . Nothing is known about his further life.

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  1. a b c d Information material from Bildungswerk Stanislaw Hantz e. V .: Belzec , Reader - based on a previously unpublished manuscript by the historian and director of the Belzec memorial Robert Kuwalek, p. 148
  2. a b c Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 541