Irmfried eberl biography of mahatma

Eberl attended four years of elementary school and the Bregenz Gymnasium Secondary School where aged 17 he took his final exams on leaving school on 15 June He was the youngest in his class. At first he wanted to study law but later decided on medicine, and began his medical studies in On 8 December , he joined the Nazi Party Membership Number , and became the Nazi representative of the students union.

At the same time, he also joined Motorsturm1 and SA- Sturm Now unemployed and without a future in Austria, Dr. Download our mobile app for on-the-go access to the Jewish Virtual Library. Category » Biography. Actors and Comedians. Business Icons. Medal of Honor Recipients. Medal of Freedom Recipients. In his short book from , Michael Grabher traces Eberl's life from his upbringing and early medical career to his suicide in Austrian custody on February 16, The bulk of the brief volume is devoted to Eberl's activity at the euthanasia institutes mostly administrative with only a short chapter concerning the months spent as commandant of Treblinka.

Perhaps not suprisingly, a large part of this chapter is taken up by a general description of the supposed genesis and purpose of Treblinka and the other Reinhardt camps, much of it derived from Yitzhak Arad's standard work Belzec, Sobibor Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps , which in turn is more or less exclusively based on post-war eyewitness testimony.

Grabher presents two letters or rather extracts from letters to Ruth Eberl sent from Treblinka by her husband. Es ist viel Betrieb und das macht mir Spass ». We will not be able to keep the July 1 deadline but we are trying to exceed it as little as possible. Because of various incidents stalled trains , accidents, and not least bureaucratic problems the completion has been delayed.

There is a lot of work to do, something which I enjoy». Despite the complete absence of any mention of gas chambers or mass killing in this letter — in the usual conspiratorial fashion of the exterminationists, non-evidence becomes evidence, and connections are drawn at will — Grabher makes the contents of this letter out to be evidence of Eberl's anti-Semitic fervor and enthusiasm for the alleged mass killing of Jews p.

Irmfried eberl biography of mahatma

This does not sound like man plagued by bad conscience for the soon to be commenced mass extermination». The second letter quoted was sent about a month later, on July 30, , when deportees from the Warsaw ghetto where arriving to the camp in large numbers:. Even if there were four of me and each day was hours long, this would surely not be enough … By employing myself ruthlessly, I have nevertheless managed the last days with only half of the personnel at my command.

I have deployed my people ruthlessly wherever it was necessary and they have struggled along valiantly. As we got nearer Treblinka but still perhaps fifteen, twenty minutes' drive away, we began to see corpses next to the rails, first just two or three, then more and as we drove into what was Treblinka station, there were hundreds of them — just lying there — they'd obviously been there for days, in the heat.

In the station was a train full of Jews, some dead, some still alive — it looked as if it had been there for days. When I entered the camp and got out of the car on the square I stepped knee-deep into money; I didn't know which way to turn, where to go. I waded in notes, currency, precious stones, jewelry, clothes The smell was indescribable; the hundreds, no, the thousands of bodies everywhere, decomposing, putrefying.

Across the square in the woods, just a few hundred yards away on the other side of the barbed-wire fence and all around the perimeter of the camp, there were tents and open fires with groups of Ukrainian guards and girls — whores from Warsaw I found out later — weaving, drunk, dancing, singing, playing music — Dr Eberl, the Kommandant showed me around the camp, there was shooting everywhere Eberl was sent back to Bernburg Euthanasia Centre for a short spell afterwards.

In he joined the Wehrmacht for the remainder of the war. After the war ended, Eberl continued to practice medicine in Blaubeuren. He found himself a widower when his first wife died in July In October he married a second time. Eberl was arrested in January He hanged himself in his cell the following month to avoid trial. Contents move to sidebar hide.

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