Brutal Death of Christian Wirth - Extremely Sadistic Nazi Commandant of Belzec Killed by His Own Men. Christian Wirth was born on 24 November 1885 in Oberbalzheim, then part of the German Empire. After completing his education, Wirth was employed as an apprentice carpenter at a timber company in Oberbalzheim and from 1905-1910 he served his military duty with Grenadier Regiment 123 in Ulm. In 1910 he married Maria Bantel, with whom he had two sons and then moved to Stuttgart, where he worked as a police detective.
The First World War began on the 28th of July 1914. In October of the same year, Wirth volunteered to serve in the army of Kaiser Wilhelm II and saw action on the Western Front in Flanders and northern France. Christian Wirth distinguished himself in battle, was wounded, and highly decorated for bravery. The First World War ended on the 11th of November 1918 when the German leaders signed the armistice in the Compiègne Forest in France. In June of the following year, Wirth returned to Stuttgart and a short time later was promoted back to police detective sergeant.
He earned a reputation for solving difficult tasks often by using brutal methods of interrogation.
After World War I ended, Germany experienced great political turmoil. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles imposed harsh terms on Germany, which had lost the war. In addition, the country saw the overthrow of its monarchy. In its place was the new Weimar Republic, a democratic government. Racist and antisemitic groups sprang up on the radical right and they falsely claimed that Jews and Communists were to blame for Germany’s problems. One such group was the Nazi Party which Wirth joined in 1923, becoming one of its original members.
When Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power in January 1933, they made the stab-in-the-back myth - an antisemitic conspiracy theory, which maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead betrayed by certain citizens on the home front-especially Jews and revolutionary socialists - an integral part of their official history of the 1920s. The Nazis denounced the German government leaders who had signed the Armistice of 11 November 1918 as the "November criminals" who had "stabbed the nation in the back" in order to seize power. Historians inside and outside of Germany unanimously reject the myth, pointing out that the Imperial German Army was out of reserves, was being overwhelmed by the entrance of the United States into the war, and had already lost the war militarily by late 1918.
In 1933 Wirth joined the SA and in 1937 was recruited by the SD, Reinhard Heydrich’s Security Service, as an agent, spying and informing on his Party and police comrades. On 10 August 1939, Wirth transferred from the SA to the SS, attaining the rank of Obersturmführer which was equivalent to First Lieutenant.
The Second World War began on the 1st of September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland. The last operational Polish unit surrendered on the 6th of October.
The German occupation of Poland was exceptionally brutal. The Nazis considered Poles to be racially inferior and they launched a campaign of terror intended to destroy the Polish nation and culture and to reduce the Poles to a leaderless population of peasants and workers laboring for German masters...
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