Photos of the Nazi perpetrator John Demjanjuk and hundreds of other images from “Aktion Reinhardt”, in which, according to the Nazi Documentation Center in Berlin, 1.8 million Jews were murdered in Poland-occupied Germany, have now appeared and are to be presented to the public ,
The more than 350 pictures came from the possession of Johann Niemann, deputy commander of the Sobibor extermination camp, said the Nazi documentation center Topography of Terror in Berlin. The center plans to present the photos in Berlin on January 28th together with the Stanislaw Hantz educational institute and the NS Research Center Ludwigsburg at the University of Stuttgart.
According to the information, the supervisor convicted in Munich in 2011 can be seen on the camp site for the first time. Demjanjuk had denied that he had been an overseer until his death. The pictures offer previously unknown insights into the Nazi mass crimes and the German camps in occupied Poland.
No final judgment
Niemann came from Emsland and joined the security team at the Esterwegen concentration camp in 1934. After a station in Sachsenhausen and in the “Leader’s Chancellery”, he was deployed to “Action T4”, in which around 80,000 allegedly physically and mentally terminally ill were murdered.
Afterwards he was involved in the construction of the first “Aktion Reinhardt” warehouse in Belzec, later he came to Sobibor. Niemann was killed in a prisoner uprising on October 14, 1943, along with ten other SS men.
Demjanjuk was sentenced to five years in prison for helping to murder 28,060 people. The ruling did not become final because Demjanjuk died ten months after the announcement – before deciding on the revision requested by the defense and prosecutors. (SDA / red)
Created: 1/19/2020, 4:55 PM
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