Belzec, Sobibor & Treblinka Death Camps

The Perpetrators Speak  

 Former Members of the SS-Sonderkommando Belzec describe their experiences

in the Belzec death camp in their own words.

Erich Fuchs

Upon our arrival in Belzec, we met Friedel Schwarz and the other SS men, whose names I cannot remember. They supervised the construction of barracks that would serve as a gas chamber. Wirth told us that in Belzec “all the Jews will be struck down.”

For this purpose barracks were built as gas chambers, I installed shower heads in the gas chambers. The nozzles were not connected to any water pipes, they would serve as camouflage for the gas chamber.

For the Jews who were gassed it would seem as if they were being taken to baths and for disinfection. 

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