Nazi German police chief, extermination camp commandant, Holocaust perpetrator
Not to be confused with Christian Wirth (politician).
Christian Wirth
Nickname(s)
(German: Christian der Grausame), Christian the Cruel[1]
Born
(1885-11-24)24 November 1885 Oberbalzheim, Württemberg, German Empire
Died
26 May 1944(1944-05-26) (aged 58) Hrpelje-Kozina, occupied Yugoslavia
Buried
Costermano, Italy
Allegiance
German Empire Weimar Republic Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Rank
Sturmbannführer[2] (Major)
Service number
NSDAP #420,383 SS #354,464
Unit
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Commands held
Action T4 Inspector of Operation Reinhard camps Bełżec, December 1941 — end of August 1942
Awards
Iron Cross First Class
Order of the Crown (Württemberg)
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Jews on selection ramp at Auschwitz, May 1944
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Christian Wirth (German:[vɪʁt]ⓘ; 24 November 1885 – 26 May 1944) was a German SS officer and leading Holocaust perpetrator who was one of the primary architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard. His nicknames included Christian the Cruel (German: Christian der Grausame), Stuka, and The Wild Christian due to the extremity of his behaviour among the SS and Trawniki guards and to the camp inmates and victims.[1][3]
Wirth worked within the Action T4 program, in which people with disabilities were murdered by gassing or lethal injection, and then at implementing Operation Reinhard, by developing almost single-handed, the extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder. Wirth later served as Inspector of all the Reinhard Camps. He was killed by the Yugoslav Partisans in Hrpelje-Kozina near Trieste after the conclusion of Operation Reinhard.
^ abZenter, Christian and Bedürftig, Friedemann (1991). Encyclopedia of the Third Reich (pg. 1053), New York: Macmillan; ISBN 0-02-897502-2
^Nationalsozialistische Besatzungs- und Annexionspolitik in Norditalien (in German)
^Rees, Laurence (2017). The Holocaust. Penguin/Viking. pp. 169–170. ISBN 9780241979952.
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