Nazi Commandant of Treblinka who killed babies by kicking them&used Jews as punching bag-Kurt Franz

Bestial Crimes of Kurt Franz - Sadistic NAZI Commandant of TREBLINKA Killing Center - World War 2. Kurt Hubert Franz was born on the 17th of January 1914 in Düsseldorf, then part of the German Empire. From 1920 to 1928, he attended public school in Düsseldorf and then worked as a messenger. Franz’s mother was an observant Catholic and when Franz's father died, his mother re-married to a man with a strong right-wing nationalist outlook. Franz joined several right-wing national groups and served in the voluntary labor corps. He also trained with a master butcher for one year.
Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany on January 30, 1933, when he was appointed as the Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg. By this time Franz was already a member of the Nazi Party, which he had joined one year earlier. After performing the military service in October 1937, he joined the SS-'Death's Head Units.
After the Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939, Franz started to work for the Nazi Euthanasia Program, code-named T4, which was the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities in Germany.
On 20 April 1942, Kurt Franz was promoted to Oberscharführer or Staff Sergeant. In spring of 1942, Franz, along with other veterans of Action T4, went to German-occupied Poland, first to Lublin concentration camp complex and then to the Bełżec extermination camp, where he stayed until the end of August 1942 when he was sent to the Treblinka concentration camp. There he was quickly promoted and from mid-August until November 1943 he served as the last camp commandant.
Treblinka was constructed in the summer of 1942 and was the third killing center, after Belzec and Sobibor, established by Operation Reinhard authorities. Deportations to Treblinka came mainly from the ghettos of Warsaw and Radom districts in the General Government and continued until the spring of 1943. Most prominent among the deportations were the approximately 7,000 Jews transported from the Warsaw ghetto after its liquidation following the Warsaw ghetto uprising. At Treblinka, the process of selection and murder was carefully planned and organized. Incoming trains of about 50 or 60 cars bound for the killing center first stopped at the Malkinia railway station. Twenty cars at a time were detached from the train and brought into the killing center. The guards ordered the victims to disembark in the reception area, which contained the railway siding and platform. One building erected on the platform was disguised as a railway station, complete with a wooden clock, timetables, destination signs and even a fake ticket office.
German SS and police personnel announced that the deportees had arrived at a transit camp and they were required to hand over all valuables. The reception area contained a fenced-in "deportation square" with two barracks in which deportees-with men separated from women and children-had to undress. It also contained large storerooms. This is where the possessions relinquished by victims were sorted and stored before being shipped to Germany via Lublin.
A camouflaged, fenced-in path led from the reception area to the gas chamber, located in the killing area. This was known as the “tube”. Victims were forced to run naked along this path to the gas chambers, deceptively labeled as showers. Once the chamber doors were sealed, a large diesel engine installed outside the building pumped in carbon monoxide exhaust fumes. Within 25 minutes at the most, all lay stretched down dead or, to be more accurate, were standing up dead since there was not an inch of free space as one Holocaust survivor remembered. The dead bodies just leaned against each other. During all this time, the Germans would compete with the Trawniki guards in brutality towards the people who were selected to die.
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[@stevebaker6149]

How on earth did this man live with himself? And how did his liebe Frau stick by him throughout his imprisonment and his later years as a free man? If there really is a Hell, he is there now.

[@longwhitemane]

How could he live with himself? IMHO Franz, like most SS, was probably a psychopath. Having been brainwashed with Nazi ideology the people he killed became nothing more than used toilet paper.

[@matthewbrig5614]

That is amazing she stayed with him. Regardless of them being Nazi they must of really loved one another.

[@68majortom]

​@krazykajeevieyou must have been to Hell then? 🤔

[@simonsmatthew]

I think interviews with the wives of these people would be very interesting.

[@stevebaker6149]

@@simonsmatthew Many of the worst guards at Auschwitz lived with their wives and families very close to the camp. The wives and sometimes even the children of the guards would enter the camp. In particular the wives of Höß and Aumeier were reported to have struck prisoners and also to have reported prisoners who displeased them to their husbands, knowing this would mean severe punishment. After the war, the wives did their best to disappear into anonymity.

[@kevinclinger5987]

This guy did 30 years of prison time for killing 300k people. There are people in the US serving longer sentences on non violent drug charges

[@tonyjones1560]

🎯🎯🎯🎯Make it make sense🤷🏾

[@trishayamada807]

@@tonyjones1560for profit prisons. Americans are worth $35-70,000 a year in for profit prisons. They can then be used as slaves to make all kinds of things. Prisoners in the USA produce over 11 BILLION a year in goods and services.

[@tonyjones1560]

@@trishayamada807 That makes sense. In an evil way….🥶🥶🥶🥶

[@trishayamada807]

@@tonyjones1560 exactly.

[@na2718]

It wasn't even 30 years of regular prison.

[@grapeshot]

I'm glad my grandfather serving in the US Army got a chest full of medals in World War II doing more than just punching Nazis.

[@sammoseley9113]

Your grandfather probably shot my grandfather.

[@jeffblacky]

My German side of the family did more than punch Allies But they was not nazi actually one grand uncle was arrested once before sent to the Russian front

[@mirquellasantos2716]

@@jeffblacky Hearing this I want take away the small German ADN inside my body. Knowing that my great-grandfather was from the most evil country in the entire world kinda of hurt.

[@nethanlock5008]

Killing Germans isn't something to be proud of, especially when most of them probably didn't want to be fighting the USA or the UK!!! If a German said this about his grandad he'd be called every name under the sun but when you say it about your grandad who killed Germans, it's fine?

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

​@@mirquellasantos2716 3rd generation Bavarian American, and what can we do! And now I'm in a country that ALSO won't stop aggressive wars, no matter who we vote for. I don't know how I'll ever get this blood off my hands.

[@wolfensteinman7978]

I don't get how someone was released from prison for health reasons when he was responsible for killing over 300,000 people?

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Back then Germany pretended that it have changed but in reality it was the same Nazi Germany. Why? Most judges, lawyers, prosecutors, policemen....... were ex-Nazis. They protected 96% of Nazi war criminals by giving them lenient sentences or by protecting them from deportation. At the end 96% of Nazi war criminals got away. The good news is that all those monsters perished and today's Germans are different.

[@Mk-vd9qs]

It's not fathomable. He not o ky mirdered over 300,000 innocwnr men, women children, infants and babies, he tortured them before the poor souls breathed theri last bresth

[@StephanBakun]

German justice

[@nitsamichael1436]

He should be called ‘The Robot’ not ‘The Doll’ because he was absolutely inhuman.

[@keithwald5349]

This guy was a monster among monsters.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Disgusting man

[@Manwendlil]

@@WorldHistoryVideos one needs not to be a nazi to be a sadistic, cruel person...

[@jameshughes525]

One of many

[@richarddelgado2723]

This person appeared to be thee worst of all the Nazis war criminals if that’s even possible Even worse perhaps than Goeth 😑….

[@Manwendlil]

@@richarddelgado2723 every war-criminal is evil in his own way.

[@simonsmatthew]

One of the worst Nazis that people should know about. Thank you for this video and Franz about Treblinka. We must never forget.

[@jayduke8554]

This horror done by ordinary people is so scary 😢

[@johntomlinson6849]

The fact that West Germany took 20 years to bring this monster to justice says everything about their post-war so-called "guilt".

[@simonsmatthew]

The Allies were also responsible for not bringing these people to justice. They were more worried about fighting Russians during the Cold War. Many of the Nazi Ukrainian guards (Tawniki) in Treblinka actually ended up migrating to the UK and Canada (you can youtube that) even though the UK government knew they were murderous criminals. Those Nazis that were trialled in Poland (eg the Auschwitz trials) did not escape justice.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Actually Germany was the same Nazi Germany as most most of the lawyers, judges, prosecutors..... were Nazis who supposedly were denazified. 96% of Nazi war criminals got away- sad.

[@RogerLewis-ey2tt]

In U.S. and we did more to protect Nazi war criminals than Germany did. National shame.

[@wendymudkins8208]

I can not get enough of this Chanel I love how you don't leave any details out great video thank you

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

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[@dougieranger]

What exceptional brutality. Thanks WH for making these films, we must never forget.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Thanks for watching. Tomorrow we have another Nazi-killer story. Let us know if you liked it. And the special video is due to next week ... good things sometimes take too much time to finish ...

[@dougieranger]

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[@dougieranger]

@@WorldHistoryVideos I can see the channel grow. The narration is brilliant too. Slàinte mhath. 🥃

[@jamisbillson4872]

We are forgetting already. Trump in America and Brexit in Britain are both nationalist in nature. Our Tory government would have sided with Nazi Germany were this 1939.

[@nievaconsing3344]

RIP 💐 🙏 Victims of Kurt Franz in Poland ❤ 🕊 🇵🇭

[@bulletman124XXL]

Evil exists. It's about to do the same thing, only far worse, dear people. Please be safe 🙏🏻

[@johncharles2524]

Who on earth Set him free , because of health reasons. . Why. ??

[@ericklein5927]

Some liberal Democrat I'm sure.

[@mirquellasantos2716]

@@ericklein5927 Wrong...... Germany pretended to be a new country but in reality it was the same Nazi Germany as most judges, lawyers, prosecutors, policemen...... were ex-Nazis. Nazi judges protected those war criminals and that's why 96% of Nazi war criminals got away.

[@StephanBakun]

German justice

[@TheRetirednavy92]

I wish I could go back to make him suffer as his victims suffered

[@kepple83]

Now that I would join you in doing we must never forget these poor innocent people and the monster

[@connellmiller3862]

After all that they still let him go and let him die peacefully the world we live in today

[@mirquellasantos2716]

Remember that Germany pretended to have changed but in reality was the same ole Nazi Germany as most of the judges, lawyers, prosecutors, policeman..... were ex-Nazis. 96% of all Nazi war criminals got away thanks to those judges, Catholic church, USA, UK and Canada.

[@omairsh8]

There’s no Justice in this world sadly

[@reqhskslkwe4480]

Only 67 survivors of treblinkA..one of those was Samuel wellinberg, a great guy love his story

[@Witchywop]

What a total monster.

[@Kazino790]

The Nazis were distinguished by their cruelty, it is incomprehensible how a person could kill even babies and children... It is simply incomprehensible. It's a pity for the innocent people... The Soviet soldiers or the Japanese behaved similarly, but we probably know more about the Nazis.

[@jameshughes525]

Had he been caught in 1945-46 he would have been tried by a military tribunal and hung. It's too bad that did not happen

[@99mrpogi]

It may also depend as to which army has caught him. If he gets caught by the Soviets, he would have been taken to Russia, sent to a gulag and probably got tortured to death by the Soviet army. If he gets caught by the US army during the liberation of a concentration camp, the US soldiers could have probably executed him or probably had him beaten or shot to death by surviving inmates

[@jfournerat1274]

That would have been another fitting punishment for him other than life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

[@luizfernandolessa1889]

Como a justiça não puniu esse monstro com a prisão perpétua? Sinceramente, não consigo entender. Grato; saudações do Brasil.

[@StephenLuke]

RIH Kurt Franz (1914-1998)

[@RodneyAllanPoe]

Superb, though sickening, details once again. Another great video...well nigh definitive.

[@thEannoyingE]

Where did you find footage of the cattle cars during deportation? I’ve never seen this footage before. It’s certainly chilling.

[@BrianHayter-zl2uc]

Wow what a beast

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

We were shocked! Producing this video brought us nigthmares ... always when you feel like " there can't be anything worse" , they surprise you ...hopefully it will not happen again ...

[@Patrickstarrrrr69]

@@WorldHistoryVideosif you read this, I’m curious about your accent? I can’t seem to place it.

[@pointsofsue2487]

My fathers unit liberated Belsen, and until his dying day, my father said he did not kill enough Nazis. He saw the evil as a young man, and it still affected him till the day he sadly passed. I went on to marry a Jewish man who lost dozens of family members in Belarus during the 40s, and when you see the ages of people, including babies and children murdered then I can understand my father's sentiment.

[@vadouis-rt3of]

There is an interview with Kurt Franz on youtube but unfortunately, it is in German with no English subtitles. I would like to know what he said. Can anyone post it with subtitles?

[@tomtas6999]

I'm German, maybe it's better that you don't understand this interview. It's pretty unbearable what he's saying. In summary, he tells that he had no precise insight into the entire camp, only its small part. That he had nothing against Jews and always tried to save as many as possible, would have weakened the extermination orders as much as possible and that he had hardly any power to stop the whole thing. The culprits were the SD and police people anyway, he had no authority over them anyway. As a normal thinker you have to stop the vide every three minutes and take a few deep breaths, otherwise you'll throw up! On the one hand it is good that the opportunity was taken to interview one of the main criminals, on the other hand it is pure mockery for the victims and their descendants that he was allowed to spout this lying and perverted dirt!

[@vadouis-rt3of]

@@tomtas6999 Thank you. I am glad that I did not have to hear his denials. What a coward! Thanks for interpreting.

[@edwardd9702]

It has English subtitles.

[@novadhd]

@@tomtas6999 sounds like a good liar

[@na2718]

He didn't know anything, he didn't see anything, he didn't do anything. Also he had jewish friends. That's basically all you need to know.

[@Noscams00]

They set him free for health reasons then proceeds to live for more years??? The more I learn about history and see what's going on today the more I am convinced there is zero justice.

[@novadhd]

it was just a bs excuse to set him free. Why I dont know

[@mirquellasantos2716]

@@novadhd I know...... Germans pretended to be a new country but in reality it was the same Nazi Germany. Why? Most judges, lawyers, prosecutors, policemen..... were ex-Nazis. Nazi judges protected Nazi war criminals by changing their sentences, giving them lenient sentences and by avoiding deportation. As a result 96% of Nazi war criminals got away.

[@MrMickthemonster]

OMG Treblinka was the most deadly if all for sure it was opened a fraction of the size of Auschwitz and for a fraction of the time and only killed slightly fewer ..if you haven't seen the documentary Shoah There is a bit where he's interviewing and secretly recording an ss guard from Treblinka and he actually sings the song and at the end he smiled a smile that only a cold blooded murderer would have and said no Jew today knows that song or words to that effect.. implying that any Jew who knew those words is dead.. unrepentant Nazi.... If there is a hell I'm sure he's got his place there.. no tears shed for this Human garbage

[@peelsherrif0995]

Treblinka I was a forced labour camp. Treblinka II was the extermination camp and it is unbelievable that it was barely twice the size of a football field.

[@MrMickthemonster]

@@peelsherrif0995 if you were to lump all the aktion Reinhardt camps into one Belzec sobbibor and Treblinka II they still wouldn't be anywhere Near the size or operated anywhere near as long yet aktion Reinhardt killed more people than Auschwitz.... It's absolutely mid boggling

[@edwardd9702]

Franz Suchomel.

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

​@@edwardd9702Correct. They also interviewed one of the officers there who served a light sentence and was released. Go figure.

[@edwardd9702]

@@chuckbuckbobuck The footage taken by Lanzman of Josef Oberhauser pulling beers in a beer hall was extraordinary! Oberhauser did 4.5 years jail for accessory to 450k murders.

[@johnwright291]

This animal died in bed at 84 living on a government pension.

[@matrix2709]

Not 900.000 but 300.000 were murdered.. still a horrible war crime !!!

[@Mr.Guild1971]

The Nazi's uniforms , daggers , leather coats were all made will great design and quality but the Deaths head skull and bones looks like it came from a gumball machine

[@68majortom]

Hugo Boss Designed the Uniforms for the SS & Waffen SS

[@KohalaLover]

@@68majortom Nazi couture.

[@na2718]

@@68majortom That is a myth.

[@lennyramon622]

This could have been you and me. This environment turned decent men into sadistic monsters. That is why we must take great care not end up there.

[@StephanBakun]

Nope genetics

[@ankles632]

@@StephanBakun Not genetics, simply human nature. Look into the Stanford prison experiment. Perfectly normal people became sadistic tyrants in a matter of days simply because of the circumstances.

[@StephanBakun]

Thank You

[@johnridgeway5265]

Maybe in all of the court cases after the war it would have been better for them to be tried in Israel or Poland

[@greendragon4058]

Celebrating 10,000 deaths that's insane

[@JackerySmith91]

In the mystical land of Zogonia, there lived a man named Theodore, renowned for his uncanny ability to attract bizarre and improbable situations. One fateful day, while strolling through a bustling marketplace, Theodore noticed a peculiar vendor selling enchanted trinkets. Intrigued by the magical aura surrounding the items, he couldn't resist exploring further. Among the vendor's assortment of curiosities, Theodore's attention was immediately captured by a radiant golden quarter. Mesmerized by its shimmering allure, he couldn't help but reach out to touch it. However, as soon as his fingers made contact, a peculiar surge of energy coursed through his body, causing the coin to vanish before his eyes.

[@gammaarmy9547]

His baby face reminds me of the Chucky doll, probably why he was known as "The Doll". He is the CHUCKY of TREBLINKA 🤣

[@christineweir8979]

How was he allowed to live a free man ?

[@na2718]

Yes, he was released in 1993, but he was on day release from prison since the 1970s. Practically all documentaries I've seen just completely miss this.

[@I_am_BiG_Al]

No matter how much i watch these videos it always amazes me the atrocities we have done to our own kind

[@TheScotian82]

Thats because no one up until recently, and even then only western liberals, consider us all the same "kind"

[@brianfleming8561]

Lalka is Polish for doll.

[@WorldHistoryVideos]

Hello Brian, You are actually right. Lalka is Polish for doll but Lyalke is Yiddish for doll. Thanks for mentioning and checking this.

[@patrickcallahan9599]

We have film pictures and hearsay

[@Tigger_34]

I could not finish, if you think there is no such thing as evil…..here ya go!!!

[@BrianHayter-zl2uc]

Evil men do evil things, god help us all

[@goodoldbubba6620]

Excellent.

[@GriefTourist]

Just proves how evil and entitied the beautiful people are!

[@chuckbuckbobuck]

How this guy wasn't caught right after the war and hanged is beyond me? No ratline to South America he was in plan site in West Germany for 112 years and didn't even serve his life sentence. Ridiculous!

[@AndreLaboy-g5d]

I saw the thumbnail alone and it’s like Jesus, he just looks wrong.

[@peaceLove1988]

You need a wok taz it's a must have kitchen appliance once you use it you will realise what your missing.

[@ileanaacacostaacosta1813]

But he was in prison for 34 years wow he was arrested since December 1959 and was released in 1993 I say wow because most of these bastards were in prison for a few years but 34 years he as 45 when he entered prison he was still very young and was released at 79 at least he paid what he owed society but God s justice that's a different matter

[@donnielewis6958]

Was a master butcher fitting

[@inezbryant6186]

Evil

[@thomasweatherford5125]

He should have been allowed to rot in his prison cell, alone.

[@WadeRaney-vv5oi]

☝of the Worst of his sick kind🤔

[@Schlipperschlopper]

This man was mad and even beat his dog to death!

[@Patrickstarrrrr69]

Mad, sure. But the dog was actually adopted by another owner after the war

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Nope he beat the dog to death@@Patrickstarrrrr69

[@Patrickstarrrrr69]

@@Schlipperschlopper source?

[@Schlipperschlopper]

Just google Dog Barry Treblina and Kurt Franz @@Patrickstarrrrr69

[@StephanBakun]

Googled you are factually incorrect ​@@Schlipperschlopper

[@marcelmolenaar5684]

Treblinka was a transit-station-"camp" The only thing ever found in the ground was a sharks tooth. Trebkinka's ground has been scanned with a gound-radar. Treblinka had water-showers, and thats it. There was one ocation that a train was separated. People whom were very ill from typhus were sent to Auswitch and where the other part went...... It was Eichmann whom came to Treblinka to make a wise decision with Kasztner (whom was on that train) to seperate the train.

[@68majortom]

Nah that can't be right, Kastners Train was full of Hungarian Jews mostly his Family & Friends, the Hungarian Action didn't begin until about April /May 1944, Treblinka was closed in July/Aug 44. The Kastner Train was diverted to Bergen Belsen not Treblinka

[@Mk-vd9qs]

​@@68majortomwhy are you even replying to a holocaust denier and antisemtie?antisemitic?! They don't deserve our reply! A lowlife who has thr outright brazeness to deny clesr historical fscts, about the horrific extermj ation camp, doenst even deserve our reply and attention. BTW, if I M not mistake, there is an interview with this massmurdered Franz, after his release

[@jacksonreilly3441]

NO TEARS SHED again! zzzzzzzzzzz. How long until we get to the cooks and dish washers?

[@pietroanania]

shame,dead as free man..

[@semsemeini7905]

He looks like a nice guy. Looks can be deceiving.

[@MatthewThompson-z8j]

He got away with it

[@jfournerat1274]

Unfortunately he was among most Nazis who were never punished for their crimes when he should have spent the rest of his life in the prison that he was put in without any possibility of parole.

[@omairsh8]

A lot of them did, there’s no real Justice in this world

[@elioraimmanuel]

I pray this man is in eternal and torturous damnation!

[@Aron-79]

🕎🇷🇺🫡⚓️🪖

[@VNn2023]

😱😱😱🤬🤬🤬😭😭😭

[@Nachcvachyiev]

turbo

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

No tears shad for Kurt Fruns....( What was the relationship between Jewish ✡️ existence in Europe content and the German empire defeated during WW1 ?...German empire defeated by Great Britain 🇬🇧 naval and military efforts ...great British was not special Jewish states 15:09

[@Spacewolf01]

They were left wing. Tell the truth.

[@galleste]

Letting this guy run around for years after the war a free man says quite a bit about latent sympathies many in Germany still had for the Nazi movement and inbred anti-semitism. Interesting to know about this man and all the horrific crimes he's committed. Because of this, I don't take criticisms of the US by Western Europeans very seriously considering how they easily fell to the Nazis and thier blind eye approach to their Jewish neighbors being hauled off to concentration camps.

[@chriskappert1365]

BRAND KRENG , BRAND .

[@djangoyorke9770]

Why is the narraor putting on a really hammy Cholmondley, middle-English voice? It is ridiculous and quite disrespectful

[@henrikorvola1004]

It is most likely AI generated voice, unfortunately the intonation is still irritatingly unnatural.

[@tattie278]

I wish that the producers of these short films would stop repeatedly using the same footage; it is getting tedious 🤦🏻‍♂️.

[@JuleyC]

And the same ending. Cause the fact is for this one, he had a family, children, wife so ya when he died there were tears shed. It's BS even for the ones executed in 1945-49 etc I guarantee their parents and relatives cried. It so stupid and monotonous. Not to mention with the exception of the big names at Nuremberg the rest were tried and sentenced without it even being last page news in the papers.

[@StephanBakun]

​@JuleyC yeah poor nazis

[@JuleyC]

@@StephanBakun no poor kids, who were not Nazis, we do not know if the parents or siblings of these people were, Or do you believe that children can't grow up and believe different things than their parent? That parents are never disappointed by the choices their children make but still love them? How about GrandParents? So if my child takes a life I'm not allowed to cry when they are punished, cry for the child I had the one who turned out different to how I wanted them to be?

[@StephanBakun]

@@JuleyC I believe genetics is a thing