About Kurt Franz
Kurt Hubert Franz (17 January 1914 – 4 July 1998) was an SS officer, final commander of the Treblinka extermination camp, and a major perpetrator of the Holocaust. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the Treblinka Trials in 1965, he was eventually released for health reasons in 1993. The verdict against Franz stated that "a large part of the streams of blood and tears that flowed in Treblinka can be attributed to him alone." == Early career == Kurt Franz was born in 1914 in Düsseldorf. He attended public school in Düsseldorf from 1920 to 1928, and then worked as a messenger and as a cook. Franz's father, a merchant, died early. His mother was an observant Catholic. When she remarried, it was to a man with a strong right-wing nationalist outlook. Franz joined several right-wing national groups and served in the voluntary labor corps. He also trained with a master butcher for one year. Franz joined the Nazi Party in 1932, and was conscripted into the German Army in 1935.
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