Stefan Baretzki
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Stefan Baretzki (born March 24, 1919 in Czernowitz , Bukowina , † June 21, 1988 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German SS Rottenführer in the Auschwitz concentration camp .
Life
Baretzki was born in 1919 as the son of a telephone mechanic. After attending elementary school, he learned the trade of a stocking knitter and needle judge and, after completing his training, was employed in a stocking factory. As a Volksdeutscher , he moved to Silesia with his sister in 1940, where he found employment in a forwarding company.
After the beginning of the Second World War he was in several retraining camps. After Baretzki was drafted into the Waffen SS in 1942, he acted as a block leader in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. As part of the evacuation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp , Baretzki led a prisoner transport to the Dachau concentration camp in January 1945 . Then he was in the SS division “30. January "is used.
After the end of the war
In May 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released a few months later. After that he worked in Plaidt as a worker in a coal shop.
In January 1959, the Hessian public prosecutor was given a list on which Baretzki was recorded as a shooter. The determination of his whereabouts dragged on for over a year, so that the arrest warrant could only be carried out in April 1960. Baretzki had participated in selections on the “ramp”, executions and individual killings, as well as being involved in the liquidation of the Theresienstadt family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
In the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt am Main in 1965, the court sentenced him to life in prison and an additional eight years in prison for murder or jointly committed murder . He had beaten a Jewish prisoner to death and drowned others in a pond . Baretzki provided information about the crimes and also charged co-defendants, such as Franz Lucas . On the 137th day of the trial, he stated:
"I'm not stupid, I wasn't blind when Dr. Lucas selected on the ramp. When he says here that he helped people, that was maybe 1945, he got himself a return ticket. Five thousand men, he put them on the gas in half an hour, and today he wants to stand up as a savior. "
Baretzki committed suicide while in prison in June 1988.
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 .
- Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons , S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-039333-3 .
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum (ed.): Auschwitz in the eyes of the SS. Oświęcim 1998, ISBN 83-85047-35-2
Web links
- The 1st Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial. (PDF)
- Stefan Baretzki on http://www.auschwitz-prozess-frankfurt.de
- Baretzki, Stefan. In Theresienstadt Lexicon.
Individual evidence
- ^ Ernst Klee: Auschwitz. Perpetrators, accomplices and victims and what became of them. A dictionary of persons. Frankfurt am Main 2013, p. 30f.
- ↑ Quoted in: Dietrich Strothmann : The good person of Auschwitz . In: Die Zeit , No. 13/1965.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Baretzki, Stefan |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German SS storm man in Auschwitz |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chernivtsi , Bukovina |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 21, 1988 |
| Place of death | Bad Nauheim |