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Kurt Bolender was born on 21 May, 1912 in Duisburg, German Empire, is a German Holocaust perpetrator. Discover Kurt Bolender's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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Age 54 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 21 May 1912
Birthday 21 May
Birthplace Duisburg, German Empire
Date of death 10 October, 1966
Died Place Hagen, West Germany
Nationality Oman

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1912

Heinz Kurt Bolender (21 May 1912 – 10 October 1966) was an SS sergeant during the Nazi era.

Bolender was born in 1912 in Duisburg and stayed in school until the age of 16 when he became a blacksmith apprentice.

1930

He joined the NSDAP in 1930.

1939

In 1939, he joined the SS-Totenkopfverbände ("Death's Head Unit").

He was attached to the Action T4 euthanasia program and worked at Hartheim, Hadamar, Brandenburg and Sonnenstein killing centers where physically and mentally disabled Germans were exterminated by gassing and lethal injection.

Bolender was involved in the cremation process of disposing of victims, as well as "test" gassing procedures during the Action T4.

During this period he worked with Franz Stangl and Christian Wirth.

1941

In 1941-42 he was attached to an ambulance unit on the Eastern Front in Russia along with the other T-4 workers.

1942

In 1942, he operated the gas chambers at Sobibór extermination camp, perpetrating acts of genocide against Jews and Romani people during Operation Reinhard.

Bolender served at Sobibor extermination camp from April to August 1942, where he was one of the most feared SS officers.

He was the commander of Sobibor's extermination area and he personally supervised gassings and cremations.

He was entrusted with this job due to his prior working relationship with Sobibor commandant Franz Stangl.

In fall 1942, Bolender became the commander of the Ukrainian camp guards at Sobibór.

Moshe Bahir, a Sobibór survivor, wrote about Bolender:"It is hard to forget Oberscharführer Kurt Bolender, with his athletic body and long hair, who used to go walking half naked, clad only in training breeches, carrying a long whip with which he brutally lashed the camp prisoners whom he came upon on his way. On his way to lunch he was in the habit of passing the main gate and swinging a whip with all his strength upon the heads of the Jews who went through. Once, when I was still working in the platform commando, the group was accused of carelessness when we had left a window open on one of the train cars. Each one of us was punished with 100 lashes. Bolender was very active in this task. More than once I saw him throwing babies, children, and the sick straight from the freight cars into the trolley with the load that went to the Lazarett [execution pits disguised as a field hospital].

He was the one who chose the ten men to deliver the food to the workers in Camp III.

When he had a yen to accompany the group, not one of them would return to us when the task was done."

In December 1942, Bolender's duties at Sobibór were temporarily put on hold when he was sent to prison for intimidating a witness involved in his divorce.

After serving the sentence, Bolender returned to Operation Reinhard, where he assisted in the dismantlement and liquidation of Sobibor.

Afterwards he served at the SS labor camp at Dorohucza and subsequently to Trieste in Italy.

1945

On 18 January 1945, Bolender was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class.

After World War II, Bolender assumed a fake identity, did not contact his family or his relatives, and after some time, had himself declared deceased.

1961

After the war, Bolender was recognized in 1961 while working under a false identity as a doorman at a nightclub in West Germany, and subsequently accused in 1965 of personally murdering at least 360 Jewish inmates and assisting in the murder of 86,000 more at Sobibór.

He died by suicide in prison two months prior to the end of the trial.

He was recognized in May 1961 working as a bouncer at a nightclub in Germany and was immediately arrested.

He was arrested under an assumed name Heinz Brenner.

It is probable that after the war he also went by the pseudonym Wilhelm Kurt Vahle while working as a bouncer at the Er- und Siebar and the Hofbräuhaus in Hamburg.

At his residence police found a whip with the silver initials "KB", the inscription that was created at the camp by Sobibór survivor Stanisław Szmajzner.

1965

In 1965, Ada Lichtman, a Sobibór survivor, described Bolender and his dog:"Paul Groth and Kurt Bolender would take Barry (the dog) with them. The dog would walk quietly by their side, but when his master turned to one of the people and asked, "So you don't want to work?" Barry would launch himself at the person, biting the flesh, tearing at it and pulling off chunks of it."

In 1965, Bolender, along with 11 former SS guards from Sobibór, was tried in Hagen, West Germany.

At the trial Bolender initially claimed that he had never been in Sobibór, but instead fought against partisans around Lublin, Poland.

However, he broke down under cross-examination and confessed to being present at Sobibór.

Prior to the completion of the trial, Kurt Bolender died from suicide by hanging in his prison cell.

1966

SS-Scharführer Erich Fuchs, who served with Bolender, testified about him in 1966:

"About thirty to forty women were gassed in one gas chamber. The Jewish women were forced to undress in an open place close to the gas chamber, and were driven into the gas chamber by SS members and the Ukrainian auxiliaries. When the women were shut up in the gas chamber I and Bolender set the motor in motion. About ten minutes later the thirty to forty women were dead."

Part of Bolender's duties included supervision of the Jewish work details in Lager III.

In his own words:

"I assigned the Arbeitsjuden ("worker Jews") to different groups: some had to empty out the gas chamber after the cremation was completed; others had to transport the dead bodies to the graves."

SS-Oberscharführer Erich Bauer, who also served with Bolender at Sobibór, testified about him in 1966:"Bolender was in charge of Camp III. In Sobibor there was a working Jew whom Bolender ordered to box with another working Jew, and for his pleasure they hit each other almost until death. Bolender had a big dog, and when he was in charge of the platform workers, he set the dog at the Jews who did not work quickly enough."

Also, according to Bauer, Bolender participated in gang rapes of female prisoners prior to killing them:

"I was blamed for being responsible for the death of the Jewish girls Ruth and Gisela, who lived in the so-called forester house. As it is known, these two girls lived in the forester house, and they were visited frequently by the SS men. Orgies were conducted there. They were attended by Bolender, [Hubert] Gomerski, Karl Ludwig, Franz Stangl, Gustav Wagner, and Steubel. I lived in the room above them and due to these celebrations could not fall asleep after coming back from a journey...."