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August Wilhelm Miete
August Wilhelm Miete served as Treblinka staff member responsible for the so-called infirmary and supervision of prisoner labor details. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Treblinka through documented office, decisions, supervision or operational conduct. It does not assign every crime committed by an institution or region to one individual.
Confirmed findings
- He served at the Treblinka extermination camp from June or July 1942 until November 1943. (Landgericht Düsseldorf — Treblinka judgment archive)
- He was responsible for the so-called infirmary and participated in selecting and killing sick, elderly and unfit prisoners. (Institute of National Remembrance (IPN))
- The court established eight acts of murder involving at least nine individual victims. (Fritz Bauer Institute)
- He was convicted as co-perpetrator in the mass murder of at least 300,000 people and sentenced to life imprisonment. (Landgericht Düsseldorf — Treblinka judgment archive)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Miete’s guilt rests on direct killings and knowing, active participation in Treblinka’s mass-extermination mechanism, not merely on formal membership in the camp staff. (Landgericht Düsseldorf — Treblinka judgment archive; Institute of National Remembrance (IPN); Fritz Bauer Institute)
Key events and mechanisms
- Served at Treblinka from June or July 1942 to November 1943, including at the so-called infirmary and sorting area. (Fritz Bauer Institute)
- Personally killed prisoners deemed sick, elderly or unfit for work. (Institute of National Remembrance (IPN))
- Received a life sentence from the Düsseldorf Regional Court on 3 September 1965. (Landgericht Düsseldorf — Treblinka judgment archive)
The circle records authority, function and agency. Several profiles may describe different parts of the same persecution chain, so profile-level totals must not be added together.
Postwar accountability
The Düsseldorf Regional Court sentenced him to life imprisonment on 3 September 1965. (Landgericht Düsseldorf — Treblinka judgment archive)
Limits of the evidence
The figure of 300,000 describes legal responsibility as co-perpetrator in the collective mass murder, not the number of people he personally shot. The judgment separately proved eight murder acts against at least nine victims. Further acts disclosed at trial but outside the indictment did not form part of the conviction. (Landgericht Düsseldorf — Treblinka judgment archive; Institute of National Remembrance (IPN); Fritz Bauer Institute)
Sources
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