Christian Wirth, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Nazi German police chief, extermination camp commandant, Holocaust perpetrator
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Place of Birth: Balzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
About Christian Wirth
- Christian Wirth (German: [v??t] (listen); 24 November 1885 – 26 May 1944) was a German policeman and SS officer who was one of the leading architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard.
- His nicknames included Christian the Terrible (German: Christian der Grausame) and The Wild Christian.Wirth worked at scaling up the Action T4 program, in which people with disabilities were murdered by gassing or lethal injection, and then at scaling up Operation Reinhard, by developing extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder.
- Wirth served as Inspector of all Operation Reinhard camps.
- He was the first Commandant of Belzec extermination camp.
- He was later killed by Yugoslav partisans in Hrpelje-Kozina near Trieste.
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