Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel was an SS non-commissioned officer in Sobibór extermination camp. As the commandant of Camp I, he was in charge of a Sonderkommando, a unit consisting inmates, mainly Jewish prisoners forced to do a variety of jobs including herding victims into the gas chambers.
Frenzel claimed that he was always fair in conducting punishments.
Below are a few examples of his ‘fairness’
A 15 year old boy was caught stealing a can of sardines, Frenkel took the boy to Lager III, the crematorium and shot him.
In spring 1943, two Jews from Chelm escaped from the camp, Frenzel announced that as a punishment , every tenth prisoner at the morning roll call would be executed. He personally walked along the lines of the roll call and selected the victims to be shot at Camp III. Twenty prisoners were shot as a reprisal for the two who escaped.
One survivor testified that one time Frenzel grabbed an abandoned baby in an incoming transport, smashed the baby’s skull and threw the infant aside, like a dead rat.
After World War II, he was arrested by United States troops at a prisoner of war camp near Munich, but was soon released. Frenzel found a job in Frankfurt as a stage lighting technician. On 22 March 1962, while on a break at work, he was again identified, arrested and brought to trial along with other former SS officers at the Sobibór trial on 6 September 1965.
Frenzel was charged with personally murdering 42 Jews , and was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes but was ultimately released after 16 years.
He died 2 September 1996,aged 85.
It seems to me the only one who got a ‘fair’ punishment was Frenzel. Another case where justice wasn’t served.
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