Life

Bothmann was born on 11 November 1911 in Lohe He was member of the state police directing center floats (Poznan) in the rank of a Kriminalkommissars and a

In March/April 1942 Bothmann Kriminalkommissar Herbert long one replaced of the same agency as a director/conductor of the "“SS-Sonderkommandos Kulmhof"” or "“SS-Sonderkommandos X"” in the extermination camp.

Bothmanns time in Chelmno to at the end of March 1943 covered the phase of the most intensive murder activity.

After one special vacation in April 1943 all 85 members of the "“SS-Sonderkommandos X"” came, obviously on own desire under its commander Bothmann, closed to 7. SS-Freiwilligen-division "“prince Eugen"”. They were used in Yugoslavia in the fight approximately partisans as Feldgendarmerie, whereby the unit suffered substantial losses.

In the middle of February 1944 the SS Heinrich Himmler and realm governors Arthur Greiser, the Ghetto Litzmannstadt agreed upon are "“personnel to a minimum reduced"” will and may "“only as much Jew, as it in the interest of the arms economy be kept absolute must"”, keep. One specified at the same time: "“The decrease will be accomplished by in gau already in former times active special command of the Bothmann which was."” Himmler will give instruction, will heruszuziehen to Bothmann with its people from the employment in Croatia and "“gau to the Wartheland again at the disposal will put"”.

In April 1944 Bothmann with a part of his men from the SS-division "“prince Eugen"” returned to Chelmno. The "“decrease"” by the SS-Sonderkommando, already decided, began only in the middle of June 1944. Between 23 June and 14 July 1944 7,176 Jewish men, women and children in 10 rail transports by Litzmannstadt into the again-opened extermination camp Chelmno were removed and murdered there in the gas cars.

When Soviet troops had taken Litzmannstadt, Bothmann shot and its men at the night of 17. to 18 January 1945 the last still living Jewish workers, who were concerned since conclusion of the transportation in the middle of July 1944 still with clearing up work for the removal of all traces of the destruction. Bothmanns command set off to the west, was finally dissolved and on different police stations distributed.

In February 1945 Kriminalkommissar Bothmann director/conductor of the Grenzpolizeikommissariats Flensburg became. It came to suicide after end of war into British detention and committed on 4 April 1946 in heath (Holstein) by

Literature

• Adalbert (Hg.), LV extermination camps in the mirror of German criminal procedures. Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Chelmno, dtv documents, Munich 1977, ISBN 3423029048.
• Eugen Kogon/Hermann Langbein/Adalbert (Hg.), National Socialist mass by poisonous gas. A documentation, S. Fischer publishing house, Frankfurt/Main 1983, ISBN 3100404025.
• Lucjan Dobroszycki (Hg.), The Chronicle OF Ghetto 1941-1944, Yale University press, new Haven/London 1984, ISBN 0300032080.

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