Paul Bredow
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Paul Bredow
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At the Treblinka extermination camp (left to right):
Paul Bredow, Willi Mentz, Max Möller, Josef Hirtreiter |
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| Allegiance |  Nazi Germany |
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 Schutzstaffel |
| Rank | 40px Unterscharführer, SS |
| Unit |  SS-Totenkopfverbände |
| Commands held | Treblinka extermination camp |
SS-Unterscharführer Paul Bredow (1902 – December 1945) was a member of the German SS in World War II and Holocaust perpetrator who worked at Treblinka extermination camp during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust in Poland.[1][2]
Background
Bredow was from German Silesia (Schlesien). He served at Grafeneck and Hartheim Euthanasia Centres. He came to Treblinka together with Franz Stangl in the first group of German SS. He served there until spring 1943. Bredow was the head of the Kommando Rot clothing sorting unit at the Barracks A in the camp's zone 2 Auffanglager, remembered for his pathological cruelty by survivors. In spring 1943 he was transferred to Sobibor, where he was put in charge of the "Lazarett". His hobby there was a target shooting of Jews with a pistol, fifty a day, which was fully approved by his superior Christian Wirth.[3]
Bredow was transferred to San Sabba concentration camp in Trieste (Italy) before the war ended. He returned to Germany after the war and worked for a few months as carpenter together with his SS friend Frenzel in Giessen until November 1945. In December 1945 he was killed in an accident in Göttingen.[3]
