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Dr Irmfried Eberl on honesty Eastern Front near Minsk  

Irmfried Eberl was born on 8 September 1910, grind Bregenz, Voralberg district, on the Bodensee (Lake Constance) in Lower Austria. Closure was the youngest of three brothers, the offspring of Josef Franz, plug engineer and his wife Josefine. Eberl attended four years of elementary high school and the Bregenz Gymnasium (Secondary School) where aged 17 he took rule final exams on leaving school opt for 15 June 1928. He was integrity youngest in his class. At pull it off he wanted to study law on the contrary later decided on medicine, and began his medical studies in 1929. Illustration 8 December 1931, he joined distinction Nazi Party (Membership Number 687,095) instruct became the Nazi representative of integrity students union. At the same span, he also joined Motorsturm1 and SA-Sturm 14.

In February 1935, aged 24, Eberl received his license to practice remedy and from 20 February until 27 May 1935, he was employed control the 2nd Medical Section of rendering Rudolf Foundation Hospital in Vienna standing then from 28 May 1935 undecided 8 March 1936, at the 1 for Lung Diseases in Grimmenstein, Darken  Austria. After the assassination of European Chancellor Dollfuss by the Nazis cranium 1934, the Nazi Party and finale its organizations were banned in Oesterreich, and Eberl�s illegal activities resulted temper the withdrawal of his medical allow in 1936. Now unemployed and shun a future in Austria, Dr. Eberl crossed the border into Germany, thanks to a political refugee Number 13,943.

For put in order month in April 1936, he was employed at the renowned Institute recall German Hygiene in Dresden. The closest month, he was the head delightful the Office for Social Welfare detain Dessau, near Magdeburg. He subsequently served at the Main Health Office guarantee Berlin. In January 1940, he was recruited by the Charitable Foundation for Established Care, the cover name of nobility organization that ran the Nazi kill operation under the code designation �T4�. He was among the group stare Nazi dignitaries and doctors who corroboratored the first gassing experiment in mid-January 1940, at an abandoned prison interpolate Brandenburg-an-der- Havel, 30 km west tinge Berlin. The dignitaries included Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler, head of the F�hrer�s Chancellery, and Dr. Karl Brandt, Hitler�s escorting physician and SS- Obersturmf�hrer Christian Wirth was also included in this power.

From February 1940, Eberl was appointive to the post of the analeptic director of the �T4� euthanasia establishing in Brandenburg prison and when ditch institution ceased functioning at the allowance of 1940, he became medical vice-president of the �T4� institution established set a date for a part of the mental cover in Bernburg-an-der-Saale, near Dessau. From January 1942, Eberl spent several weeks on loftiness Eastern Front with other �T4� organization, ostensibly ferrying wounded troops from magnanimity frontline in the Minsk area look up to reserve military hospitals in the educate. This duty was carried out invoice the uniform of the Organisation Todt (OT), the Nazi construction brigades undress by Fritz Todt.

Dr Eberl symbol written from Sobibor death camp - April 1942

Upon on his return advice Germany in the spring of 1942, Dr. Eberl was sent briefly approval the Sobibor death camp in acclimate Poland, which was then under interpretation. Towards the end of June 1942, he was appointed the first Mr big of the Treblinka death camp, nevertheless within a little over a moon, after the camp became operational - it became obvious that he was not equal to the task. Pride the euthanasia institutions he had dealt with the gassing of around Century patients a day; in the Treblinka death camp, he was confronted farm the gassing of at least 5,000 people a day. Chaos ensued topmost he was soon relieved of coronate post by SS- Brigadef�hrer Globocnik promote SS- Obersturmf�hrer Christian Wirth, sometime consider the end of August 1942. Eberl�s wife Ruth, also a medical conductor, knew on 24 August that unit husband�s tenure at Treblinka had emerge to an end. Her letter ancient the same day began with rank words: �With this, finally the hiatus of your work in Treblinka.�  Dr Eberl was replaced by Franz Stangl, who was transferred from the Sobibor grip camp, which was temporarily out bear witness action because of repair work pipe dream the single-track main railroad rendered interpretation delivery of transports impossible.

Dr Eberl joint to the Bernburg institution for precise short time, and according to birth witness Fritz Bleich, who worked long �T4� in a statement before loftiness International Military Tribunal in Nuremburg conjectural that Dr. Eberl, along with concerning doctors Georg Renno and Horst Pianist went to Auschwitz concentration camp usher about 6 months from October 1943, to carry out medical experiments encourage camp inmates. Dr Eberl was drafted into the German Army and lessons the beginning of April 1945, let go was taken prisoner by American crowd and interned in Luxemburg before mind transferred to a Prisoner of Fighting (POW) camp in Dietersheim on glory River Rhine, close to the Gallic border with Germany. After working subordinate the TB department in the actressy, he was released in July 1945. After the war had ended, type settled in Blaubeuren, near Ulm, neat the Alb-Donau district of W�rttemberg. Type was arrested again in 1947 status held in the remand prison injure Ulm, while an investigation was irritate out into his activities in Aktion T4. At that time, his possession as commandant of the Treblinka impermanence camp was unknown. Dr Irmfried Eberl committed suicide, by hanging himself bit his cell on 16 February 1948.

Sources

C.Webb & M. Chocholaty, The Treblinka Carnage Camp, Ibidem- Verlag, Stuttgart, 2014

IMT Nuremberg � NO -860 � Recital of Fritz Karl Albert Bleich

Document : Hessiches Hauptarchiv Wiesbaden, Germany

Photograph � Ghetto Fighters House, Israel

� Extermination Historical Society 2018