Paul Bredow (1902 – December 1945) was a German
SS sergeant and
Holocaust
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perpetrator. He served at
Treblinka extermination camp
Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The camp ...
during the
Operation Reinhard phase of
the Holocaust in Poland
The Holocaust in Poland was part of the European-wide Holocaust organized by Nazi Germany and took place in German-occupied Poland. During the genocide, three million Polish Jews were murdered, half of all Jews murdered during the Holocaust.
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Bredow was from German Silesia (Schlesien). He served at
Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre
The Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre (german: NS-Tötungsanstalt Grafeneck) housed in Grafeneck Castle was one of Nazi Germany's killing centres as part of their forced euthanasia programme. Today, it is a memorial site dedicated to the victims of ...
and
Hartheim Euthanasia Centre. He came to
Treblinka
Treblinka () was an extermination camp, built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It was in a forest north-east of Warsaw, south of the village of Treblinka in what is now the Masovian Voivodeship. The cam ...
together with
Franz Stangl
Franz Paul Stangl (; 26 March 1908 – 28 June 1971) was an Austrian-born police officer and commandant of the Nazi extermination camps Sobibor and Treblinka. Stangl, an employee of the T-4 Euthanasia Program and an SS commander in Nazi German ...
in the first group of German ''SS''. He served there until spring 1943. Bredow was the head of the ''Kommando Rot'' clothing sorting unit at the Barracks A in the camp's zone 2 ''Auffanglager'', remembered for his pathological cruelty by survivors. In spring 1943, he was transferred to
Sobibor
Sobibor (, Polish: ) was an extermination camp built and operated by Nazi Germany as part of Operation Reinhard. It was located in the forest near the village of Żłobek Duży in the General Government region of German-occupied Poland.
As an ...
, where he was put in charge of the "
Lazarett". His hobby there was the target shooting of Jews with a pistol, fifty a day, which was fully approved by his superior
Christian Wirth
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Bredow was transferred to
San Sabba concentration camp in
Trieste
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(Italy) before the war ended. He returned to Germany after the war and worked for a few months as carpenter together with his ''SS'' friend
Karl Frenzel
Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel
until November 1945. In December 1945, Bredow was killed in a car accident in
Göttingen
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1902 births
1945 deaths
Sturmabteilung personnel
Holocaust perpetrators in Austria
Holocaust perpetrators in Germany
Holocaust perpetrators in Poland
SS non-commissioned officers
Sobibor extermination camp personnel
Treblinka extermination camp personnel
Aktion T4 personnel
Road incident deaths in Germany