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Richard Wolfgang Thomalla (23 October 1903 — 12 May 1945)〔(Sobibor - The Forgotten Revolt )〕 was an ''SS-Hauptsturmführer'' (Captain) and a civil engineer by profession who was head of the SS Central Building Administration at Lublin reservation in occupied Poland and was in charge of construction for the Operation Reinhard death camps Bełżec, Sobibor and Treblinka during the Holocaust in German-occupied Poland. Born in Annahof in the former Upper Silesia region of the German Empire (now, the village of Sowin, Opole Voivodeship, Poland). Thomalla became a member of the Nazi Party in 1932: (no. 1,238,872) and SS (no. 41,206). ==World War II== The first death camp to be constructed under Thomalla's supervision was Bełżec. Construction started on 1 November 1941 and was completed in March 1942. He then proceeded to design and supervise the construction of Sobibor in March 1942. Workers employed for building the camp were local people from neighboring villages and towns. During this preliminary stage, Thomalla served as the head of the ''Sonderkommando'' at Sobibor.〔Klee, Ernst, Dressen, Willi, Riess, Volker ''The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders'', p. 231. ISBN 1-56852-133-2.〕 The ''Sonderkommando'' consisted of about eighty Jews from ghettos within the vicinity of the camp, brought to Sobibor for slave-labor construction work. A squad of ten Ukrainians trained at Trawniki concentration camp guarded the ''Sonderkommando''. Upon completion of the camp, these Jews were shot.〔 When Thomalla completed his building assignment in Sobibor he was replaced there by Franz Stangl in April 1942. He then proceeded to Treblinka which copied the design of Sobibor. ''SS-Unterscharführer'' (Corporal) Erwin Lambert who had previously been assigned to the Action T4 euthanasia program and had constructed the new gas chambers in Treblinka, testified about Thomalla: Between July 1942 and October 1943, around 850,000 people were killed in Treblinka.〔Henry Friedlander. ''The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution.'' The University of North Carolina Press, September 22, 1997. ISBN 0-8078-4675-9〕〔Naomi Kramer, Ronald Headland. ''The fallacy of race and the Shoah''. University of Ottawa Press, November 25, 1998. ISBN 0-7766-0476-7〕 Thomalla was reportedly executed by the NKVD (Soviet Police) in Jičín, Czechoslovakia on 12 May 1945.〔〔Ernst Klee. ''Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich: Wer war was vor und nach 1945''. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 3-596-16048-0〕 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「Richard Thomalla」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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