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64: 98: 83: 174:, or infirmary, where the prisoner was killed. In his capacity as commander of the Lower Camp and over the Jewish prisoners, he wanted to know exactly what was going on throughout his jurisdiction. He therefore exploited the weakness or baseness of some of the prisoners and turned them into informers. He received the nickname " 170:, where he became one of the most feared and hated SS officers. He would follow people around, stop them and search for money, pictures or any family mementos that the prisoners would try to hide on their person. If he caught someone carrying anything, he would beat the prisoner cruelly and send him to the 28: 230:
When we had finished our rendition, Kiwe recited the numbers of the prisoners due for lashing on their naked posteriors that day. Each such prisoner would be tied to the stool and given twenty-five lashes with a whip as he counted the blows
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From one of the transports that arrived in October 1942, Küttner removed ten or twelve young boys and put them to work at various service tasks in the camp. One of the boys he appointed
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of his lower camp to wear armbands bearing the red cross emblem, so as to deceive the true nature of the "infirmary" as a killing station.
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The Treblinka Perpetrators. An overview of the German and Austrian SS and Police Staff
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Küttner was also in charge of whipping prisoners at the evening roll call.
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The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders
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Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps
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After Operation Reinhard ended Küttner also served in the
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Into that Darkness - From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder
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Index


Yiddish
Nazi Germany

Schutzstaffel

SS
Oberscharführer
Treblinka
SS
Oberscharführer
Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka trials
World War II
Operation Reinhard
occupied Poland
Unterscharführer
Franz Suchomel
capo
sic
Samuel Willenberg
SS
Italy
Treblinka trials
"KÜTTNER, Fritz SS-Oberscharführer"
Yitzhak Arad
Klee, Ernst
ISBN
1-56852-133-2
Sereny, Gitta

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