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Ernst Lerch
Ernst Lerch (19 November 1914 – 1997) was said to be one of the most important men of Operation Reinhard (german: Aktion Reinhard), responsible for "Jewish affairs" and the mass murder of the Jews in the General Government (''Generalgouvernement''). However he was never convicted of war crimes. Life and early career Lerch was born on 19 November 1914 in Klagenfurt. He briefly studied at the Hochschule für Welthandel in Vienna. From 1931 to 1934 Lerch learned the hotel trade by working as a waiter in various hotels in Switzerland, France and Hungary. On 1 December 1932, Lerch joined the National Socialist German Workers Party (''Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei'', NSDAP) (Party Number 1,327,396). On 1 March 1934, he became a member of the "Protective Squadron" (German: ''Schutzstaffel'', SS) (SS Number 309,700). From 1934 until the incorporation of Austria into Germany (''Anschluss'') in 1938, Lerch was employed in his father's Café Lerch. The café, located ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Operation Reinhard
or ''Einsatz Reinhard'' , location = Occupied Poland , date = October 1941 – November 1943 , incident_type = Mass deportations to extermination camps , perpetrators = Odilo Globočnik, Hermann Höfle, Richard Thomalla, Erwin Lambert, Christian Wirth, Heinrich Himmler, Franz Stangl and others. , participants = , organizations = Schutzstaffel, SS, Order Police battalions, ''Sicherheitsdienst'', Trawnikis , camp = Bełżec extermination camp, BelzecSobibór extermination camp, SobiborTreblinka extermination camp, Treblinka Additional: Chełmno extermination camp, ChełmnoMajdanek concentration camp, Majdanek Auschwitz II , ghetto = European and Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland including Białystok Ghetto, Białystok, Częstochowa Ghetto, Częstochowa, Kraków Ghetto, Kraków, Lublin Ghetto, Lublin, Łódź Ghetto, Łódź, Warsaw Ghetto, Warsaw and others , victims = Around 2 million Jews , survivors = , witnesses = , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
