Otto Stadium
Otto Stadie (born March 10, 1897 in Berlin , † July 28, 1977 ) was a nurse and member of the SS special command in the Treblinka extermination camp . Stadie was sentenced to seven years in prison in the Treblinka trials .
Until 1933
Stadie attended elementary school in Berlin and then worked as a messenger and later in a clinic, where he acquired knowledge of nursing. In the First World War he was a soldier from August 1914. There he became a medic trained and rose to the rank of sanitary sergeant and sanitary sergeant on.
After the war he was in Breslau and married there. He remained unemployed for years and got a job as a nurse in Berlin in 1927 . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP and the SA and became SA Rottenführer . After the outbreak of the Second World War he was involved in the Polish and French campaigns and was dismissed as a medical sergeant .
Bernburg killing center
After his discharge from the Wehrmacht , he was employed at the Nazi killing center in Bernburg and was responsible for transporting the mentally ill from Halle an der Saale , Neuruppin and Eberswalde to Bernburg , where they were murdered.
In Bernburg, Stadie met the doctor Irmfried Eberl , who later became the commandant of the Treblinka extermination camp . Later he came to Russia as a medic in a unit of the Todt Organization in the winter of 1941/1942.
Treblinka extermination camp
From summer 1942 to July 1943 he was employed as administrative manager in the Treblinka extermination camp. He was responsible for the SS camp team and the Ukrainian guards and held the post of SS staff leader . After the arrival of a transport he organized the scheduled execution of the physical destruction. He briefed the German and Ukrainian camp staff, armed with whips or firearms. Stadie chose among the arriving working Jews : “ He had the old and sick Jews taken to the hospital to be shot and, contrary to the truth, pretended to them that they would receive medical help there [...] In isolated cases, in which it was unloading When a platoon gave resistance and unrest, he also made use of his firearm. If shots over the heads of the newcomers were ineffective, he would also shoot into the crowd. “It could not be proven that there were injuries or deaths from his shots. Stadie gave August Rent the order to shoot camp elder Benjamin Rakowski because of the illegal possession of gold and money. The inmates called him Fesele " because he was fat, small [...] with a bulldog's face contorted with anger " and gave speeches to the Jews who had arrived on the platform of the extermination camp.
In August 1943, Stadie was ordered to the special department Einsatz R in Italy , where he was responsible for the transport of Jews to Germany and was deployed to secure and guard strategically important roads.
At the end of the war he was taken prisoner by the Americans. In 1945 he was released from the Weilheim prison camp in Upper Bavaria to Düsseldorf . From there he moved to Duisburg and finally lived in Nordenau in the Sauerland in 1946 , where he worked as a private carer and sold souvenirs. From 1962 he was retired.
Arrest and verdict
On July 15, 1963, he was arrested as a pensioner in Nordenau ( Meschede district ) on the basis of the arrest warrant issued by the Düsseldorf Regional Court on June 24, 1963. On September 3, he was sentenced to seven years in prison for complicity in the collective murder of at least 300,000 people and complicity in murder. He was released on December 17, 1965.
literature
- Samuel Willenberg : Treblinka Lager. Revolt. Escape. Warsaw Uprising. Pp. 95/96. Unrast-Verlag, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-89771-820-3
- LG Düsseldorf, September 3, 1965 . In: Justice and Nazi crimes . Collection of German criminal judgments for Nazi homicidal crimes 1945–1966, Vol. XXII, edited by Irene Sagel-Grande, Adelheid L. Rüter-Ehlermann, HH Fuchs, CF Rüter . Amsterdam: University Press, 1981, No. 596, pp. 1–238 Subject matter of the proceedings: gassing of at least 700,000 predominantly Jewish men, women and children and, in a minority, also of gypsies. Fatal abuse, shooting, killing and hanging of individual prisoners as well as being mangled by 'Barry', the camp commandant's dog.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Düsseldorf Regional Court: Treblinka trial judgment of September 3, 1965, 8 I Ks 2/64 ( Memento of the original of March 21, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) 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. , accessed September 29, 2009
- ↑ a b Willenberg: Treblinka camp. P. 44 and Note 18, p. 218 (see literature)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stadie, Otto |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fesele |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German nurse and convicted war criminal |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1977 |