Anton Thernes

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Anton Thernes
War crimes
TrialMajdanek trials
Criminal penaltyDeath
Military career
AllegianceNazi Germany Nazi Germany
Service/branch Schutzstaffel
Years of serviceuntil 1944
RankObersturmführer
UnitSS-Totenkopfverbände

Anton Thernes (8 February 1892 – 3 December 1944) was a Nazi German

Majdanek Trials and executed on 3 December 1944, along with five other war criminals, near the gas chambers and the Majdanek crematorium.[2][4]

War crimes

Thernes was married and had six children in

Treblinka.[6]

Majdanek
The camp's original crematorium with reconstructed wooden building around it, Majdanek c. 2006

Thernes was given the task of destroying the evidence of

Majdanek Trials together with his assistant SS-Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Gerstenmeier. He denied knowing anything, but the proceedings were swamped with testimonial proofs offered by eyewitnesses.[5] During his trial, Thernes said "The people here were mostly Jews, they were not real prisoners of war. I am not a sadist!"[7]

He was executed on 3 December 1944 along with five other war criminals, close to the gas chambers and the Majdanek crematorium.[2][4]

Harvest Festival

During the mere 34 months of camp operation, more than 79,000 people were murdered at the main camp alone (59,000 of them

Harvest Festival (totalling 43,000 with subcamps).[10]

Notes

  1. ISBN 978-1438430287. Retrieved 2013-04-13. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help
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  2. ^ a b c "Majdanek Concentration Camp". Majdanek, Poland. July 21, 2009. Archived from the original on 2013-02-04. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  3. ^ Marcus Wendel (Aug 8, 2007). "SS personnel serving at Majdanek". Camp personnel. Axis History. Retrieved April 14, 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Procesy zbrodniarzy (Trials of war criminals) 1946–1948". Wykaz sądzonych członków załogi KL Lublin/Majdanek. KL Lublin. Archived from the original on 2013-10-14. Retrieved 2013-04-14.
  5. ^ a b c d Narration (2013). "Anton Thernes answers questions at the Majdanek Trials. Historical film footage". Majdanek concentration camp. Part 2 of 5. Google+: real life sharing (from Official archives of the Republic of Poland). Retrieved 2013-04-22.
  6. ^ Staff Writer (2006), "Lublin/Majdanek Concentration Camp: Overview", United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ushmm.org.
  7. ^ Majdanek concentration camp - part 2 of 5, retrieved 2022-08-07
  8. ^ Reszka, Paweł (2005-12-23). "Majdanek Victims Enumerated. Changes in the history textbooks?". Gazeta Wyborcza. Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum. Archived from the original on 2011-11-06. Retrieved 2010-04-13.
  9. ^ USHMM (May 11, 2012). "Soviet forces liberate Majdanek". Lublin/Majdanek: Chronology. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC. Retrieved 2013-04-13.
  10. ^ Jennifer Rosenberg. "Aktion Erntefest". 20th Century History. About.com Education. Archived from the original on 2016-12-27. Retrieved 2013-04-16.
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