(b. 1914), SS officer who served as deputy commandant at Treblinka. Franz joined the German army in 1935; after his service he enlisted in the SS. At first he worked at the Buchenwald concentration camp. In late 1939 he moved to the Euthanasia Program. In April 1942 he was transferred to the Belzec extermination camp, and in late summer he was sent to the extermination camp at Treblinka, where he served as deputy to camp commandant Franz Stangl. Franz was the most prominent and most terrifying figure at Treblinka. He would inspect the camp and its prisoners on a regular basis, hitting,...
(b. 1914), SS officer who served as deputy commandant at Treblinka. Franz joined the German army in 1935; after his service he enlisted in the SS. At first he worked at the Buchenwald concentration camp. In late 1939 he moved to the Euthanasia Program. In April 1942 he was transferred to the Belzec extermination camp, and in late summer he was sent to the extermination camp at Treblinka, where he served as deputy to camp commandant Franz Stangl. Franz was the most prominent and most terrifying figure at Treblinka. He would inspect the camp and its prisoners on a regular basis, hitting,...
Seligmann, Kurt
Kurt Seligmann's father was of Jewish origin, but had converted to Christianity and married a non-Jewish German. Seligmann was thus considered by the Nazis to be of mixed race, but because he was married to a Catholic German and his children were raised as Christians, he was protected from persecution.
One of Seligmann's business associates was his Jewish friend, Hermann Schipper. When the persecution of the Jews began, Seligmann tried to help Schipper as best as he could, until Schipper was deported to Auschwitz with his daughter Paula and many of the remaining Jews of...