At the Treblinka extermination camp (left to right): Paul Bredow, Willi Mentz, Max Möller, Josef Hirtreiter
Born
(1904-04-30)30 April 1904
Schönhagen, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
Died
25 June 1978(1978-06-25) (aged 74)
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
Criminal status
Deceased
Conviction(s)
Murder (25 counts) Accessory to murder (300,000 counts)
Trial
Treblinka trials
Criminal penalty
Life imprisonment with hard labour
Military career
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Rank
Unterscharführer
Unit
SS-Totenkopfverbände
Commands held
Treblinka extermination camp
SS-UnterscharführerWilli Bruno Mentz (30 April 1904 – 25 June 1978) was a member of the German SS in World War II and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked at Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland. Mentz was known as "Frankenstein" at the camp.[1][2]
^Kopówka, Edward; Rytel-Andrianik, Paweł (2011). Treblinka II – Obóz zagłady [Monograph, chpt. 3: Treblinka II Death Camp] (PDF file, direct download 20.2 MB) (in Polish). Drohiczyńskie Towarzystwo Naukowe [The Drohiczyn Scientific Society]. ISBN 978-83-7257-496-1. with list of Catholic rescuers of Jews imprisoned at Treblinka, selected testimonies, bibliography, alphabetical indexes, photographs, English language summaries, and forewords by Holocaust scholars.{{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^Arad, Yitzhak (1987). Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps(Google Books preview). Bloomington, Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. ISBN 0253213053.
SS-Unterscharführer Willi Bruno Mentz (30 April 1904 – 25 June 1978) was a member of the German SS in World War II and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked...
University Press. ISBN 0253213053. Levy 2006, p. 242. Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, Riess, Volker. The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators...
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out most of these killings with his own hand, aided by his subordinate WilliMentz nicknamed "Frankenstein" by the inmates, who alone killed thousands,...
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Lorenz Hackenholt Josef "Sepp" Hirtreiter Alfred Ittner Erich Lachmann WilliMentz Paul Rost Ernst Stengelin Ernst Zierke Heinrich Barbl Franz Wolf Guards...
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