Karl Frenzel

Karl Frenzel

SS-Oberscharführer (Staff Sergeant) Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel (20 August 1911 — 2 September 1996) was the commandant of Sobibor extermination camp's Lager I section, which was the section for the Sonderkommando forced-labor prisoner-workers, who also herded victims into the gas chambers. After World War II he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes, and served 16 years in prison, but was ultimately released for health reasons.

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