Heinrich Matthes, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Heinrich Matthes

Holocaust perpetrator

Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1902

Place of Birth: Wermsdorf, Saxony, Germany

Profession: politician, nurse, soldier

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Heinrich Matthes

  • Heinrich Arthur Matthes (11 January 1902 – date of death unknown) was a German SS commander during the Nazi era.
  • He served as a deputy commandant of Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland.
  • Matthes was appointed chief of the extermination area at Camp 2 where the gas chambers were built and managed by the SS personnel overseeing some 300 slave labourers disposing of corpses under penalty of death.
  • He was tried in the 1964 Treblinka trials, convicted, and sentenced to life imprisonment.

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