Belzec Extermination Camp Staff
(1) SS-Rottenführer Fritz Tauscher, (2) SS-Rottenführer Karl Gringer, (3) SS-Rottenführer Ernst Zierke, (4) SS-Hauptscharführer Lorenz Hackenholt, (5) Polizei-Wachtmeister Artur Dachsel, (6) SS-Rottenführer Heinrich Barbl.
SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef Mengele; Mengele served in the 5th Waffen-SS Division Wiking, winning the Iron Cross 1st Class, before transferring to Auschwitz and subsequently Gross-Rosen. After the war, many German sources attempted to separate the frontline SS from those that served in the camps. That was an incorrect assertion as hundreds of SS officers transferred back and forth between the two.
SS-Obersturmführer Rudolf Suttrop (left) and fellow SS officers at Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
SS-Hauptsturmführer Dr. Hannes Eisele arrested after the war.
SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Eduard Strauch, Einsatzkommando 1b & 2
SS-Obersturmbannführer Dr. Eduard Strauch, born August 17, 1906 in Essen, commander Einsatzkommando 1b and Einsatzkommando 2, winner of the Iron Cross 1st Class, sentenced at Nürnberg to Death, released from prison by reason of insanity, died on September 9, 1955 in a mental hospital in Uccle, Belgium, said in 1943 on killing Jews: “Gentlemen…we are convinced that someone must carry out these tasks. I can state with pride that my men…are proud to act out of conviction and fidelity to their Führer.”
SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Ott, Einsatzkommando 7b
SS-Brigadeführer Dr. Heinz Jost, Einsatzgruppe A
Soldiers prepare to retrieve hot food.
Veterans in the 94th Infantry Division inside the encirclement eat a meal.
Einsatzkommando victims before execution at Babi Yar outside Kiev, September 1941.
