October 23, 1903 - Richard Thomalla
His professional background was in civil engineering — and it was precisely that expertise that made him useful to the SS apparatus responsible for constructing the death camps of Operation Reinhard. Thomalla oversaw the building of facilities at Sobibór and Treblinka, sites that would become central to the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust. The administrative and technical competence he brought to that work placed him among those whose roles, though rarely examined in isolation, were structurally essential to industrialized killing.
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Richard Thomalla (German: [toˈmala]; 23 October 1903 – 12 May 1945) was a German war criminal and SS commander of Nazi Germany. A civil engineer by profession, he was head of the SS Central Building Administration at Lublin reservation in occupied Poland. Thomalla was in charge of construction for the Operation Reinhard death camps Bełżec, Sobibor and Treblinka during the Holocaust in Poland.
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