Friday, December 9, 2016

Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

ANTON THERNES



He was the last camp Dy commandant of Mazdanek concentration camp in during WW II and was arrested by Soviets after liberating the camp.He was given the task of destroying all evidence by higher ups, but Anton was lethargic and the camp was intact when Soviets invaded it. More over, 500 Jews were brought from Lubin for the last minute killing and when they arrived, the Soviet tanks were at the camp gates. Soviets arrested the staff available and tried the Dy commandant along with five others Including his deputy W ill helm Gerstenmeir a captain and hanged them in the camp near crematorium on 3 Dec 1944.This was the first Mazdanek trial. He was of the rank obersturmfuhrer.

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