Thursday, October 5, 2017

Pencil sketch of a Nazi by Dr K Prabhakar Rao

PAUL ROST  NAZI

ROST, Paul SS-Untersturmführer, SS-Number: 382 366 
12/06/1904 - 21/03/1984 


  
He was Born in Deutschenbora (Saxony). After extended elementary school, learned butcher. 1925 to Dresden police. 1937 member of NSDAP. On 21 May 1940 ordered to Sonnenstein, where he served as chief of police squad and transportation command. Served at Hartheim too. 
On 1 December 1940 joined the SS. Early 1942 ordered to Lublin. 
His comrades described him as undisciplined as he had an extramarital affair with a teacher in Warsaw.   
In March 1942 to Sobibor. As Meister der Schutzpolizei he was one of the first to be reported for duty in the camp, initially as acting commander. After him it was Floss and Niemann. He had to secretively spy on the other SS camp staff. In charge of Camp II with the sorting procedures. He served Since May 1943 at Treblinka. 
  
In December 1943 ordered to Trieste (Italy). On 9 November 1944 he was promoted to second lieutenant of the police and received the Kriegsverdienstkreuz Zweiter Klasse mit Schwertern. 
After the war for a short time in a US POW camp, then returned to his family in Dresden. Imprisoned by the Soviet Military Authority until summer 1946, then released. Worked unmolested in Dresden until his death.



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