SS-Obersturmbannführer Christian Wirth was born on November 24, 1885 in Oberbalzheim, in the Launberg district of Württemberg. He attended the Volkschule in Oberbalzheim for eight years and then trained as a carpenter before being employed by the Buhler Brothers Timber Works. Wirth suffered from asthma his entire life, but managed to join the 123rd Grenadier Regiment […]
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Hermann Höfle

Hermann Höfle served as the chief-of-staff and right hand man to Odilo Globocnik during Operation Reinhard, the killing of at least 1,700,000 Jews in eastern Poland. Born in Salzburg, Austria on June 19, 1911, Höfle joined the Nazi Party on August 1, 1933. He had previously been an auto mechanic and a taxi driver, rising to ownership […]
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