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Otto Stadie
Otto Stadie served as Stabsscharführer and administrative head of personnel at Treblinka. 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
- Otto Stadie was born in Berlin on 10 March 1897 and died in Velbert on 28 July 1977. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- At Treblinka, as Stabsscharführer and “Spiess”, he headed the administration of German and Ukrainian guards, scheduled duty, received transports and ensured the unloading and direction of deportees to their deaths. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- The Düsseldorf Regional Court found that he helped deceive victims, directed sick and elderly people to the execution site and personally used violence; it sentenced him on 3 September 1965 to 7 years in prison. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Place in the chain of responsibility
The profile describes Stadie as an organizational link in the extermination process and a perpetrator of documented violence, in line with the individual findings of the judgment, not as the sole decision-maker for the entire Treblinka operation. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Key events and mechanisms
- In 1942–1943 he organized guard duty and the handling of transports sent to the gas chambers at Treblinka. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
- On 3 September 1965 he received a 7-year prison term; on 30 June 1970 the Federal Court of Justice dismissed the appeals. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
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 trial imposed a 7-year prison term with pretrial detention credited; the decision became final after the ruling of 30 June 1970. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Limits of the evidence
No individual victim total is assigned to Stadie, and his administrative and direct participation is distinguished from command of the whole camp. No portrait with clearly documented publication rights was found. (Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record; Source: cited institutional or judicial record)
Sources
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