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Erwin Lambert
Erwin Lambert served as construction specialist involved in building gas chambers. The profile reconstructs the person’s function in Sobibor · Treblinka · occupied Poland 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
- Erwin Lambert was born on 7 December 1909 and, as a mason and construction specialist, was assigned to the T4 programme. (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
- The sources document his work building and enlarging gas chambers at Sobibor and Treblinka and his knowledge of their purpose. (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
- The Düsseldorf Regional Court sentenced him to four years in prison in the first Treblinka trial for aiding the murder of at least 300,000 people. (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
Place in the chain of responsibility
Lambert’s responsibility is technical and operational: the knowing creation of killing infrastructure, without attributing overall command of the camps to him. (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
Key events and mechanisms
- 1940–1941 – construction work in the T4 programme (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
- 1942–1943 – construction and enlargement of gas chambers at Sobibor and Treblinka (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
- 1965 – four-year sentence in the Treblinka trial (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
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
In the first Treblinka trial, the Düsseldorf Regional Court convicted Lambert of aiding mass murder and sentenced him to four years in prison. (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
Limits of the evidence
The profile does not attribute command of the camps or every death at Sobibor and Treblinka to Lambert; the sources individualise his knowing construction contribution. (Source: Museum of the Former Sobibór Death Camp, Marek Bem, Sobibor Extermination Camp, pp. 393–394, biographical profile of Erwin Lambert; Source: Justiz und NS-Verbrechen, Düsseldorf Regional Court, 03.09.1965, 8 I Ks 2/64, JuNSV vol. XXII, p. 19 onward)
Sources
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