Hermann Höfle
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Hermann Julius Höfle pron.
also Hans （or） Hermann Hoefle （19 June 1911 – 21 August 1962） was an Austrian-born SS commander and Holocaust perpetrator during the Nazi era.
He was deputy to Odilo Globočnik in the Aktion Reinhard program, serving as his main deportation and extermination expert.
Arrested in 1961 in connection with these crimes, Höfle committed suicide in prison before he could be tried.
Born in Salzburg, Austria, Höfle joined the NSDAP on 1 August 1933, with party number 307,469.
He joined the SS at the same time.
Before the war, he worked as an auto mechanic.
After the conquest of Poland, Höfle served in Nowy Sącz, in Southern Poland.
In November 1940 he served as an overseer of a Jewish labour camp southeast of Lublin.
Up to December 1941 Höfle was in Mogilev.
He was involved in deportations to the camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.
He lived and worked from the Aktion Reinhard headquarters with the Julius Schreck Barracks, Ostland Strasse, in Lublin.
Höfle was "Coordinator" of Operation Reinhard and chief of staff to Odilo Globočnik, serving as his main deportation and extermination expert.
Alongside Christian Wirth, Höfle had chief authority of Operation Reinhard beside Globočnik.
At the beginning of the operation, he held the rank of Hauptsturmführer （captain）.
SS members, including those from Action T4 who were assigned to the operation, reported to the headquarters in Lublin and were instructed to their duties by Höfle.
For an example of the limited paperwork, every member of Operation Reinhard signed the following declaration of secr...