Alfred Trzebinski

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name=Alfred Trzebinski


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born=29 August 1902
died=8 October 1946
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placeofdeath=Hamelin
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allegiance=Nazi Germany
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Alfred Trzebinski (born 29 August 1902, died 8 October 1946) was an SS-physician at the Auschwitz, Majdanek and Neuengamme concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He was condemned to death and executed.

Life

Trzebinski was born in Jutroschin near Posen (now Poznań). After his study and graduation he was a physician in Saxony. Trzebinski was member of the Nazi Party and SS. SS-Stubaf Dr. Trzebinski was "camp physician" (German: "Lagerarzt") at the Auschwitz concentration camp from July 1941 until October 1941, and from October 1941 until September 1943 at the Majdanek camp. He was then transfered to the Neuengamme camp. At Neuengamme camp he was the supervisor for SS-physician Kurt Heißmeyer. Heißmeier had done medical experiments to Soviet prisoners of war and children. Trzebinski was liable for the medical care of the inmates of the Neuengamme camp and all its subcamps. Of 100,000 inmates at least 42,900 died from 1938 til 1945. [cite web |title=Geschichte |url=http://www.kz-gedenkstaette-neuengamme.de/index.php?id=9 |publisher=Memorial site Neuengamme |accessdate=2008-10-12 de icon]

Homicide of children

Trzebinski was involved in the murdering of 20 children at the subcamp "Bullenhuser Damm", a former school partly destroyed during the bombing of Hamburg in World War II. Heißmeyer had ordered 20 Jewish children (10 boy and 10 girls) from the Auschwitz camp to continue his experiments. His purpose had been to inject tuberculosis bacteria and to excise the axillary lymph nodes. On the night of 20 April 1945 Trzebinski injected morphine into the children and they were hanged in boiler room of the "Bullenhuser Damm" school. That same night 28 other adults died, mostly Soviet prisoners of war.cite web |title=Die Kinder vom Bullenhuser Damm |url=http://www.abendblatt.de/daten/2005/04/20/423690.html?s=2 |publisher=Hamburger Abendblatt |date=2005-04-20 |accessdate=2008-10-11 de icon]

Trial and death

At the end of the Second World War, Trzebinski was able to escape. On 1 February 1946 he was arrested—after working for the British forces in the POW camp Neumünster—because of the persistency of Anton Walter Freud, a grandchild of Sigmund Freud. Trzebinski was sentenced to death during the "Curiohaus processes" in Rotherbaum in March 1946, also for his complicity in the homicide of the children. At his trial he confessed [Citation |last=Neumann |first=Klaus |year=2000 |title=Shifting memories: the Nazi past in the new Germany. Social history, popular culture, and politics in Germany |publisher=Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press |isbn=9780472111473] freely and frankly saying "If I had acted as a hero the children might have died a little later, but their fate could no longer be averted." and admitted "you cannot execute children, you can only murder them" but they were "only" Jews. [Citation |last=Langer |first=Lawrence L |year=1996 |title=Admitting the Holocaust: collected essays |location=New York |publisher=Oxford University Press |page=67 |isbn=0195106482 ] Treblinzki was executed by hanging on 8 October 1946 [cite web |url=http://www.axishistory.com/index.php?id=360 |title=Axis History Factbook: Neuengamme Trial |accessdate=2008-10-11 ] in Hamelin.

References

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