Franz Wolf (SS officer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Franz Wolf (SS officer)

Holocaust perpetrator from Sobibor

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1907

Place of Birth: Český Krumlov, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Profession: politician

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

SS-Oberscharführer Franz Wolf (born 9 April 1907) was a German Nazi senior squad leader serving with the Action T4 forced euthanasia program, and later, at the Sobibór extermination camp in occupied Poland during the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, codenamed Operation Reinhard.
Leading a normal life in West Germany for the next twenty years, along with thousands of war criminals protected by Konrad Adenauer, Wolf was arrested in 1964, and indicted during the Sobibór trial with participating in the murder of 115,000 Jews.
On 20 December 1966, the court in Hagen sentenced him to eight years in prison for taking part in the mass murder of "at least 39,000 Jews".He was not an SS-Officer, SS-Oberscharführer is equal to Sergeant (NCO) in the US Army.
He was also not a member of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, which ceased to exist as a unit in 1940.
The men of the extermination camp were under the command of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD).
The guards in regular KZ/KL was under the command of SS-WVHA Amt D, which also was part of the Waffen-SS