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Franz Reichleitner - Sadistic NAZI Commandant of Sobibor called " The IDIOT ". Franz Reichleitner was born on the 2nd of December 1906 in Ried im Traunkreis, then part of Austria-Hungary. He was 26 years old when on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by German President Paul von Hindenburg. Reichleitner joined the Nazi Party in 1936 and became a member of the SS in 1937.
The SS - Schutzstaffel or Protection Squads - was originally established in April 1925 to protect Adolf Hitler and other Nazi leaders and speakers and provide security for political meetings."
In January 1929, at a time when the SS numbered 280 men, Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler Reichsführer-SS. 4 years later, when the Nazis seized power in Germany, members of the SS numbered more than 52,000. As a reward for its role in murdering Ernst Röhm and the top leadership of the SA on June 30-July 2, 1934, Hitler announced that the SS was an independent organization. SS chief Himmler was now subordinate to Hitler in Hitler's new capacity as Führer of Germany. As Führer, Hitler was no longer a politician or chief executive bound by the legal constraints of the German State, but rather a symbol of Germany's future survival and greatness, with authority to act outside the laws of the state to guarantee Germany's survival and greatness. Himmler's subordination to Hitler within this “Führer-Executive” chain of command was the basis for the immense power that the SS accumulated during the Nazi regime. As SS chief, Himmler received authority directly from Hitler to carry out ideological policies that the laws of the state might not permit. This ideologically rooted “Führer authority” enabled authorization of indefinite incarceration in the concentration camp system and mass murder. Nazi leaders justified this extra-legal chain of command and the policies initiated under its authorization by the national emergency decrees following the Reichstag Fire in 1933 and, after 1939, by the intensified emergency created by the war.
When World War 2 started on 1 September 1939, Franz Reichleitner worked for the Nazi Euthanasia Program, code-named T4, which was the systematic murder of institutionalized patients with disabilities in Germany. The patients were transported by bus or by rail into 6 killing centers where they were murdered. In these centers the Nazis gassed, shot, or killed by lethal injections those who were deemed “unworthy of life “such as residents of welfare institutions, some concentration camp inmates, the chronically sick, the mentally and physically disabled, homosexuals, and even sick German soldiers. Reichleitner worked at the Hartheim Euthanasia Centre in Austria and served first as an assistant supervisor under officer Christian Wirth before assuming Wirth's position of chief supervisor.
The T4 program predated the genocide of European Jewry, the Holocaust, by approximately two years. Historians estimate that the program claimed the lives of 250,000 men, women, and children. In the fall of 1941, Nazi Germany implemented a plan to systematically murder the 2 million Jews living in German-occupied Poland. This plan was codenamed Operation Reinhard and as part of this action, three killing centers were established: Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor.
On 1 September 1942, with the rank of SS-Obersturmführer, on the orders of Christian Wirth and Odilo Globocnik, Reichleitner took command of the Sobibor extermination camp with Franz Stangl's departure to Treblinka.
German SS and police officials conducted deportations to Sobibor between May 1942, when the regular gassing operations began, and the fall of 1943. Most of the Jews brought to Sobibor were immediately gassed by carbon monoxide which had been piped into the gas chambers from an engine. About 250,000 victims were murdered in this killing center.
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