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SS-Rottenführer Stefan Baretzki (* March 24th, 1919 in Czernowitz - † June 21st, 1988 in Bad Nauheim) was a German SS officer who worked at the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II.

Life
Baretzki was born in 1919 the son of a mechanic's phone. After attending elementary school he learned the craft of a hosier and needle judge and was employed after training in a stocking factory. As an ethnic German, he moved in 1940 to his sister to Silesia, where he found employment in a forwarding agency.

After the start of World War II he was in several retraining camps. After Baretzki 1942 Waffen-SS had been drafted, he acted as a block leader in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. During the evacuation of the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau Baretzki initiated in January 1945 a prisoner transport in the Dachau concentration camp. After that he was in the SS division. "30 January, " used.

After the war
In May 1945, he fell into Soviet captivity from which he was released a few months later. After that he was in Plaidt employed as workers in a coal merchant.

In January 1959, the Hessian prosecutor was handed over a list, was listed on the Baretzki as gunman. Determining his whereabouts retired throughout a year, so that the arrest warrant could be enforced only in April 1960. Baretzki had both selections participated on the "ramp", executions and individual killings as well as in the liquidation of the Theresienstadt family camp participated in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

In the first Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, the court sentenced him for murder or murder committed jointly to lifelong prison and an additional eight years in prison. He suggested a Jewish prisoner dead and drowned in a further fire extinguishing pond. [1] Baretzki made ​​information on the crime and also burdened co-defendants, as Franz Lucas. So he led the 137th day of the trial before the court of:

"I'm not stupid, I'm not yet been blind, as the Dr. Lucas has selected on the ramp. If he is saying that he has been helping people that may have been in 1945, as it has concerned a return ticket. Five thousand men, he sent in a half hour into the gas, and now he wants to pose as saviors. " [2]

Baretzki took in June 1988 in the criminal detention life.