Willi Mentz
| Willi Mentz | |
|---|---|
At the Treblinka extermination camp (left to right):
Paul Bredow, Willi Mentz, Max Möller, Josef Hirtreiter |
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| Born |
30 April 1904 Schönhagen, Germany |
| Died | 25 June 1978 (aged 74) Niedermeien, Germany |
| Allegiance |
 Nazi Germany |
| Service/branch |
 Schutzstaffel
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| Rank | Unterscharführer |
| Unit | SS-Totenkopfverbände |
| Commands held | Treblinka extermination camp |
SS-Unterscharführer Willi Mentz (30 April 1904 – 25 June 1978) was a member of the German SS in World War II and a Holocaust perpetrator who worked at Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland. Mentz was known as "Frankenstein" at the camp.
Born in Schönhagen near Brandenburg, Mentz joined the NSDAP in 1932. He was a sawmill worker and milkman before joining a police detachment. In 1940, following the outbreak of war, he handled cows and pigs at Grafeneck Euthanasia Centre in the course of Action T4, and in 1941 was transferred to Hadamar gassing facility near Limburg, where he worked in the food garden until early summer 1942. In June–July 1942 Mentz was posted to Treblinka extermination camp and served there until November 1943. He worked at Lazaret killing station at Treblinka II Vernichtungslager and later, at Camp I Arbeitslager as an overseer of the agricultural prisoner-commando (German: Landwirtschaftskommando).
Treblinka II Totenlager operated officially between 23 July 1942 and 19 October 1943 marking the most deadly phase of the Final Solution. During this time, more than 800,000 Jews; men, women, and children died in its gas chambers. Other estimates of the number killed at Treblinka exceed 1,000,000.
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