Karl Streibel

Confirmed findings

• On 27 October 1941, Odilo Globocnik appointed Streibel commandant of the SS training camp in Trawniki; he remained in the post until the camp was evacuated in July 1944.
• Under his command, auxiliary formations were trained and organised for later use by the SS and police as guards at killing centres and labour camps and during deportations from ghettos in occupied Polish lands.
• The Hamburg proceedings against Streibel, other Trawniki officers and company commanders ended in acquittal in 1976; the Pilecki Institute Archive preserves documentation of the trial.

Place in the chain of responsibility

Streibel represents the level at which recruitment, training, discipline and the allocation of auxiliary units became a resource for deportations, camp guarding and police operations. This does not mean that every later crime of every dispatched formation can be assigned to him as personal execution or an independent decision.

Key events and mechanisms

• his appointment as commandant of the SS training camp in Trawniki in October 1941
• the development of the forced-labour camp and the rear base of Operation Reinhard, 1942–1943
• the Hamburg trial of Trawniki personnel, ending in 1976

Postwar accountability

In 1970 Streibel was charged with other Trawniki officers before a Hamburg court. In 1976 all defendants in that case were acquitted; he died in 1986.

Limits of the evidence

Sources

The source set combines institutional, archival, trial or scholarly material from at least two independent publishers.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Pilecki Institute Archive
• Institute of National Remembrance