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''SS-Scharführer'' Herbert Floss or Herbert Floß (25 August 1912 — 22 October 1943) served as acting commander of the Sobibor extermination camp during the Holocaust in Poland. He also served as cremation expert in Camp II ''Totenlager'' at the Treblinka extermination camp.〔(The Holocaust: Lest we forget: Extermination camp Sobibor )〕 Floss joined the NSDAP in 1930, the SA in 1931, and the SS in 1935. He served at Sobibor from its establishment in April 1942 until the uprising on 14 October 1943. Before entering service in Sobibor, Floss was stationed in Buchenwald and several euthanasia centres. In the early period of Sobibor, Floss was the acting commander for a few weeks until he was succeeded by Gustav Wagner. Before the victims went into the gas chambers, he took their last possessions from them. Floss as remembered by fellow Treblinka SS officer Heinrich Matthes: By the end of July 1943, the Jewish "death brigade" in Camp II, supervised by SS man Floss, had cremated about 700,000 corpses.〔Tregenza, Michael. ''Christian Wirth: Inspekteur der Sonderkommandos, Aktion Reinhard''. Vol. XV, Lublin 1993, p. 57.〕 At Sobibor Floss also trained the Ukrainian guards. One week after the uprising he accompanied a group of them to Lublin. When the train was near Chełm he was overpowered and shot with his own machine pistol.〔(Sobibor Interviews: Biographies of SS-men )〕 ==See also== *Treblinka Trials 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Herbert Floss」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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