Christian Wirth Military person

Christian Wirth (German: [vɪʁt] (13px ); 24 November 1885 — 26 May 1944) was a German policeman and SS officer who was one of the leading architects of the program to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard. His nicknames included Christian the Terrible (German: Christian der Grausame) and The Wild Christian.Wirth worked at scaling up the Action T4 program, in which disabled people were murdered by gassing or lethal injection, and then at scaling up Operation Reinhard, by developing extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder. Wirth served as Inspector of all Operation Reinhard camps. He was the first Commandant of Bełżec extermination camp. He was later killed by Yugoslav partisans in Hrpelje-Kozina near Trieste.

Personal facts

Birth date	November 24, 1885
Birth place	German Empire , Balzheim
Date of death	May 26, 1944
Place of death	Slovenia , Municipality of Hrpelje–Kozina
Resting place	Italy , Costermano

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allegiance	(to 1918) (to 1933)
award	Iron Cross Order of the Crown (Württemberg)
military branch	Schutzstaffel
military command	Action T4 Bełżec December 1941 — end of August 1942 Inspector of Operation Reinhard camps
military unit	SS-Totenkopfverbände
service number	NSDAP #420383 SS #354464