June 26, 1914 - Lorenz Hackenholt
Hackenholt's career traced a direct line from the Nazi regime's earliest systematic killings to its most industrialized. He moved from the forced euthanasia program targeting disabled and mentally ill patients under Action T4 to the construction and operation of the gas chamber at Bełżec, one of the dedicated killing centers of Operation Reinhard. His technical role placed him at the operational core of mass murder on a deliberate, mechanized scale. He disappeared at the end of the war and was never tried.
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Laurenzius Marie "Lorenz" Hackenholt (26 June 1914 – missing 1945, declared legally dead as of 31 December 1945, but believed to have still been alive) was a member of the Schutzstaffel (SS) with the rank of Hauptscharführer (First Sergeant). During World War II Hackenholt built and operated the gas chamber at the Bełżec extermination camp in occupied Poland during Operation Reinhard. In so doing, he personally carried out the murder of hundreds of thousands of people.
Hackenholt had earlier been part of the murder of mental patients and the disabled in Action T4 programme of forced euthanasia.
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