- Karl Frenzel
Infobox Person
name = Karl Frenzel
image_size =150px
caption = Karl Frenzel ca.1940
birth_date = birth date and age|1911|8|28
birth_place =Germany
death_date =
death_place =
occupation = SS officerKarl Frenzel, "
SS -Oberscharführer ", (bornAugust 28 ,1911 ) is a Nazi commandant convicted of war crimes, but ultimately released on health grounds.Assigned to
Sobibór extermination camp onAugust 28 ,1942 , he remained there until the prisoner revolt onOctober 14 ,1943 . During his stay he aided in the implementation of the "Final Solution ", taking part in the industrial-scale extermination of thousands of inmates as part ofOperation Reinhard . [*Arad, Yitzhak: "Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: the Operation Reinhard death camps. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1987, p. 191f."]In 1966 he was sentenced to
life imprisonment for personally murdering six Jews, and for his part in the murder of a further 150,000 as Commandant of Sobibór's Lager (camp) No. I. [cite web | first = Blatt, Thomas | authorlink = http://www.sobibor.info | title = Sobibor, The Forgotten Revolt | url = http://www.sobibor.info/murderers.html] He was released on a technicality in 1982, re-tried, and again sentenced to life imprisonment. Due to ill health, the sentence was not imposed. [cite web | first = Blatt, Thomas | authorlink = http://www.sobibor.info | title = Sobibor, The Forgotten Revolt | url = http://www.sobibor.info/confrontation.html]In the 1987 British movie "
Escape from Sobibor ", Karl Frenzel was played byKurt Raab .External links
* [http://www.sobibor.info/confrontation.html Interview by Sobibór survivor Thomas Blatt]
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