'' Wachmann'' Nikolay Yegorovich Shalayev was a Soviet SS auxiliary guard (''Hilfswilliger'') trained at Trawniki and serving as a gas chamber operator at the

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. He was one of two guards (along with Ivan Marchenko) in charge of the motor that produced the exhaust fumes which were fed through pipes into the gas chambers during the killing process.ARC (6 May 2005)
See: Nikolay Shalayev.
"Volunteer Auxiliaries" '' Action Reinhard Camps.'' Both Shalayev and Marczenko (known to his victims from Treblinka as "Ivan the Terrible") were sent by the '' SS'' to Trieste, Italy after Treblinka was closed, where they participated in the murder of prisoners at the

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before the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945.Michele Lesie and Bill Sloat (11 May 2011)
Who was Ivan Marczenko?
''Plain Dealer'' Cleveland.com Shalayev was tried in the Soviet Union after the war, and sentenced to death in 1951 for treason. On 3 May 1951 he gave testimony to his

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interrogators about the gassing at Treblinka. In an attempt to defuse the sheer enormity of his crimes he kept pointing his finger at the Jews from the ''

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'' "helping him".Nikolay Yegorovich Shalayev
Court Proceedings Extracts & Interrogations Former Trawniki SS and Ukrainian Civilians serving in the Treblinka Death Camp. 18 December 1950Lance Ackerfeld (2008)

"Sources of Manpower". Yizkor Book Project. Shalayev was executed for his crimes at Treblinka. Under interrogation to the NKVD he stated on 18 December 1950 "I together with Ivan Marchenko van Marczenko two Germans and two Jews, was at the motor which produced the exhaust gas which was fed into the chambers of the gas chambers."

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