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==Operation Reinhard leadership and Treblinka commandants== {{further|List of people responsible for the Treblinka extermination camp}} :{|style="font-size: 90%; border: gray solid 1px; border-collapse: collapse; text-align: middle;" class="wikitable" width="98%" |- ! style="text-align:center;background:#B0C4DE"|Name ! style="text-align:center;background:#B0C4DE"|Rank ! style="text-align:center;background:#B0C4DE"|Function and Notes ! style="text-align:center;background:#B0C4DE"|Citation |- |style="background:#f2f2f8" colspan=4|{{center|<big>'''Operation Reinhard leadership'''</big>{{space|6}}}} |- |{{space|2}}[[Odilo Globocnik]]||SS-''[[Hauptsturmführer]]'' and SS-''Polizeiführer'' {{small|at the time}} (captain and SS Police Chief)||head of [[Operation Reinhard]]||<ref name="Vanderwerff">{{Citation |url=http://www.cympm.com/treblinka.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517122526/http://www.cympm.com/treblinka.html |archive-date=17 May 2011 |publisher=The Holocaust: Lest we forget |title=Extermination camp Treblinka |last=Vanderwerff |first=Hans |date=22 July 2009 |access-date=10 January 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Blatt|2000|pp=3, 92}} |- |{{space|2}}[[Hermann Höfle]]||SS-''Hauptsturmführer'' (captain)||coordinator of Operation Reinhard||{{sfn|Blatt|2000|p=10}} |- |{{space|2}}[[Christian Wirth]]||SS-''Hauptsturmführer'' {{small|at the time}} (captain)||inspector for Operation Reinhard||{{sfn|Blatt|2000|p=14}} |- |{{space|2}}{{nowrap|[[Richard Thomalla]]}}||SS-''[[Obersturmführer]]'' {{small|at the time}} (first lieutenant)||head of death camp construction during Operation Reinhard||<ref name="Vanderwerff" />{{sfn|Blatt|2000|p=14}} |- |{{space|2}}[[Erwin Lambert]]||SS-''[[Unterscharführer]]'' (corporal)||head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard (large gas chambers)||{{sfn|S.J. H.E.A.R.T|2007|loc=Trials}}{{sfn|Blatt|2000|p=19}} |- |style="background:#f2f2f8" colspan=4|{{center|<big>'''Treblinka commandants'''</big>{{space|6}}}} |- |{{space}}{{nowrap|[[Theodor van Eupen]]}}||SS-''[[Sturmbannführer]]'' (major), Commandant of Treblinka I ''[[Arbeitslager]]'', 15 November 1941 – July 1944 (cleanup)||head of the forced-labour camp||<ref name="Chodzko-list">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Szbrk6rrYUC&q=%22Willi+Post%22%2C&pg=PA216 |title=Évadé de Treblinka |publisher=Editions Le Manuscrit |year=2010 |access-date=1 November 2013 |author=Chodzko, Mieczyslaw |pages=215–216 |isbn=978-2-304-23223-3 |archive-date=14 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210814191235/https://books.google.com/books?id=7Szbrk6rrYUC&q=%22Willi+Post%22%2C&pg=PA216 |url-status=live }}</ref> |- |{{space|2}}[[Irmfried Eberl]]||SS-''Obersturmführer'' (first lieutenant), Commandant of {{nowrap|Treblinka II}}, 11 July 1942 – 26 August 1942| |transferred to Berlin due to incompetence||<ref name="Vanderwerff" /> |- |{{space|2}}[[Franz Stangl]]||SS-''Obersturmführer'' (first lieutenant), 2nd Commandant of {{nowrap|Treblinka II}}, 1 September 1942 – August 1943| |transferred to Treblinka from [[Sobibor extermination camp]]||<ref name="Vanderwerff" /> |- |{{space|2}}[[Kurt Franz]]||SS-''[[Untersturmführer]]'' (second lieutenant), last Commandant of {{nowrap|Treblinka II}}, August (gassing) – November 1943||promoted from deputy commandant in August 1943 following camp prisoner revolt||<ref name="Vanderwerff" />{{sfn|S.J. H.E.A.R.T|2007|loc=Trials}} |- |style="background:#f2f2f8" colspan=4|{{center|<big>'''Deputy commandants'''</big>{{space|6}}}} |- |{{space|2}}[[Karl Pötzinger]]||SS-''[[Oberscharführer]]'' (staff sergeant), Deputy commandant of {{nowrap|Treblinka II}}||head of cremation||{{sfn |Webb|Lisciotto|2007}} |- |{{space|2}}[[Heinrich Matthes]]||SS-''[[Scharführer]]'' (sergeant), Deputy commandant||chief of the extermination area||{{sfn|S.J. H.E.A.R.T|2007|loc=Trials}}<ref name="JVL">{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/treblinkatest.html |title=Excerpts from testimonies of Nazi SS-men at Treblinka: Stangl, Mentz, Franz & Matthes |encyclopedia=Jewish Virtual Library |access-date=1 November 2013 |quote=''Source:'' Yitzhak Arad 1987; E. Klee, W. Dressen, V. Riess 1988 (''The Good Old Days'') |archive-date=26 May 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526104419/http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/treblinkatest.html |url-status=live }}</ref>{{sfn|Arad|1987|p=121}} |- |}
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