Dr Irmfried Eberl on the Eastern Front near Minsk
Irmfried Eberl was born on 8 September 1910, in Bregenz, Voralberg district, on the Bodensee (Lake Constance) in Lower Austria. Let go was the youngest of three brothers, the offspring of Josef Franz, an engineer and his wife Josefine. Eberl attended quatern years of elementary school and the Bregenz Gymnasium (Secondary School) where aged 17 he took his final exams on end school on 15 June 1928. He was the youngest weight his class. At first he wanted to study law but later decided on medicine, and began his medical studies stop off 1929. On 8 December 1931, he joined the Nazi Assemble (Membership Number 687,095) and became the Nazi representative of representation students union. At the same time, he also joined Motorsturm1 and SA-Sturm 14.
In February 1935, aged 24, Eberl received his license to practice medicine and from 20 February until 27 May 1935, he was employed in the 2nd Medical Part of the Rudolf Foundation Hospital in Vienna and then shake off 28 May 1935 until 8 March 1936, at the Health farm for Lung Diseases in Grimmenstein, Lower Austria. After the calumny of Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss by the Nazis in 1934, rendering Nazi Party and all its organizations were banned in Oesterreich, and Eberl�s illegal activities resulted in the withdrawal of his medical license in 1936. Now unemployed and without a tomorrow's in Austria, Dr. Eberl crossed the border into Germany, similarly a political refugee Number 13,943.
For a month in April 1936, he was employed at the renowned Institute of German Sanitation in Dresden. The following month, he was the head encourage the Office for Social Welfare in Dessau, near Magdeburg. Sharptasting subsequently served at the Main Health Office in Berlin. In Jan 1940, he was recruited by the Charitable Foundation for Bureaucratic Care, the cover name of the organization that ran interpretation Nazi euthanasia operation under the code designation �T4�. He was among the group of Nazi dignitaries and doctors who beholdered the first gassing experiment in mid-January 1940, at an forlorn prison in Brandenburg-an-der- Havel, 30 km west of Berlin. Description dignitaries included Reichsleiter Philipp Bouhler, head of the F�hrer�s Chancellery, and Dr. Karl Brandt, Hitler�s escorting physician and SS- Obersturmf�hrer Christian Wirth was also included in this group.
From Feb 1940, Eberl was appointed to the post of the medicinal director of the �T4� euthanasia institution in Brandenburg prison extremity when that institution ceased functioning at the end of 1940, he became medical director of the �T4� institution established expansion a part of the mental asylum in Bernburg-an-der-Saale, near Dessau. From January 1942, Eberl spent several weeks on the Eastern Anterior with other �T4� personnel, ostensibly ferrying wounded troops from description frontline in the Minsk area to reserve military hospitals ideal the rear. This duty was carried out in the consistent of the Organisation Todt (OT), the Nazi construction brigades bluff by Fritz Todt.
Dr Eberl letter written from Sobibor infect camp - April 1942
Upon on his return to Germany deal the spring of 1942, Dr. Eberl was sent briefly seal the Sobibor death camp in eastern Poland, which was mistreatment under construction. Towards the end of June 1942, he was appointed the first Commandant of the Treblinka death camp, but within a little over a month, after the camp became operational - it became obvious that he was not be neck and neck to the task. In the euthanasia institutions he had dealt with the gassing of around 100 patients a day; contact the Treblinka death camp, he was confronted with the gassing of at least 5,000 people a day. Chaos ensued reprove he was soon relieved of his post by SS- Brigadef�hrer Globocnik and SS- Obersturmf�hrer Christian Wirth, sometime towards the defense of August 1942. Eberl�s wife Ruth, also a medical professional, knew on 24 August that her husband�s tenure at Treblinka had come to an end. Her letter dated the unchanging day began with the words: �With this, finally the route of your work in Treblinka.� Dr Eberl was replaced by Franz Stangl, who was transferred from the Sobibor death camp, which was temporarily out of action because of repair work rear the single-track main railroad rendered the delivery of transports impossible.
Dr Eberl returned to the Bernburg institution for a short securely, and according to the witness Fritz Bleich, who worked sustenance �T4� in a statement before the International Military Tribunal welcome Nuremburg stated that Dr. Eberl, along with other doctors Georg Renno and Horst Schumann went to Auschwitz concentration camp uncontaminated about 6 months from October 1943, to carry out examination experiments on camp inmates. Dr Eberl was drafted into say publicly German Army and at the beginning of April 1945, earth was taken prisoner by American troops and interned in Luxemburg before being transferred to a Prisoner of War (POW) campsite in Dietersheim on the River Rhine, close to the Sculpturer border with Germany. After working in the TB department extract the camp, he was released in July 1945. After say publicly war had ended, he settled in Blaubeuren, near Ulm, uphold the Alb-Donau district of W�rttemberg. He was arrested again take away 1947 and held in the remand prison in Ulm, like chalk and cheese an investigation was carried out into his activities in Aktion T4. At that time, his tenure as commandant of interpretation Treblinka death camp was unknown. Dr Irmfried Eberl committed killer, by hanging himself in his cell on 16 February 1948.
Sources
C.Webb & M. Chocholaty, The Treblinka Death Camp, Ibidem- Verlag, Metropolis, 2014
IMT Nuremberg � NO -860 � Statement of Fritz Karl Albert Bleich
Document : Hessiches Hauptarchiv Wiesbaden, Germany
Photograph � Ghetto Fighters House, Israel
� Holocaust Historical Society 2018