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Christian
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Christian Wirth (24 November 1885 — 26 May 1944) was a German
policeman and SS officer who was one of the leading architects of the program
to exterminate the Jewish people of Poland, known as Operation Reinhard.
Wirth worked at
scaling up the Action T4 program, in which disabled people were murdered by
gassing or lethal injection, and then at scaling up Operation Reinhard, by
developing extermination camps for the purpose of mass murder. Wirth served as
Inspector of all Operation Reinhard camps. He was the first Commandant of
Bełżec extermination camp. He was later killed by Yugoslav partisans in
Hrpelje-Kozina near Trieste.
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