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Trawnikimänner
Inspection of Trawnikimänner (some of them still wearing Soviet Budenovkas) by SS-Hauptsturmführer Karl Streibel (center) at the SS Trawniki training division. As Hiwis, they were tasked with liquidating Nazi-era Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland
ActiveFounded in 1941
CountryGerman-occupied Poland
Allegiance Nazi Germany, the SS
Branch Totenkopfverbände
TypeParamilitary police reserve
RoleLogistical support for Order Police battalions and the SS during Operation Reinhard; shooting actions, deportations to death camps
SizeOver 5,000 Hiwis

During World War II, Trawniki men ([travˈniki]; German: Trawnikimänner) were Eastern European Nazi collaborators, consisting of either volunteers or recruits from prisoner-of-war camps set up by Nazi Germany for Soviet Red Army soldiers captured in the border regions during Operation Barbarossa launched in June 1941. Thousands of these volunteers served in the General Government territory of German-occupied Poland until the end of World War II. Trawnikis belonged to a category of Hiwis (German abbreviation for Hilfswilliger, literally "those willing to help"), Nazi auxiliary forces recruited from native subjects serving in various jobs such as concentration camp guards.[1][2]

Between September 1941 and September 1942, the German SS and police trained 2,500 Trawniki men known as Hiwi Wachmänner (guards) at the special training camp at Trawniki outside of Lublin; by the end of 1944, 5,082 men were on active duty.[1] Trawnikimänner were organized by Streibel into two SS Sonderdienst battalions. Some 1,000 Hiwis are known to have run away during field operations.[3]: 366  Although the majority of Trawniki men or Hiwis came from among the prisoners of war, there were also Volksdeutsche from Eastern Europe among them,[4][5] valued because of their ability to speak Russian, Ukrainian and other languages of the occupied territories. All the officers at the Trawniki camp were Reichsdeutsche (citizens of the German Reich), and most of the squad commanders were Volksdeutsche (people whose language and culture had German origins but who did not hold German citizenship).[5] The conscripted civilians and former Soviet POWs included Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Belarusians, Estonians, Georgians, Latvians, Lithuanians, Russians, Tatars, and Ukrainians.[6] The Trawnikis took a major part in Operation Reinhard, the Nazi plan to exterminate Jews. They also served at extermination camps and played an important role in the annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (see the Stroop Report), among others.

Creation

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In 1941 Himmler instructed SS officer Odilo Globocnik to start recruiting mainly Ukrainian auxiliaries among the Soviet POWs, due to ongoing close relations with the local Ukrainian Hilfsverwaltung.[7] Globocnik had selected Karl Streibel from Operation Reinhard as the key person for this new secret project.[8] Streibel, with the assistance of his officers, visited all POW camps for the Soviets behind the lines of the advancing Wehrmacht, and after individual screening recruited Ukrainian as well as Latvian and Lithuanian volunteers as ordered.[1][2]

Due to successful adaptation of Soviet army's strategy and tactics against German forces, as well as Nazi policy of Soviet war prisoners' extermination, the influx of POW was dramatically reduced, so Streibel's personnel from the summer of 1942 started to conscript civilians of Ukrainian nationality, generally young males, from Western Ukraine (Galicia, Volhynia, Podolia and Lublin).[9]

Location of the SS Trawniki training compound in between target camps of Lublin Reservation (General Government)
Location of the SS Trawniki training compound in between target camps of Lublin Reservation (General Government)

The Trawniki-men were assembled at a training facility adjacent to the Trawniki concentration camp built for the Jews deported from the Warsaw Ghetto. The complex (serving dual purpose in 1941–43) was set up in the industrialized village of Trawniki about 40 kilometres (25 mi) southeast of Lublin with rail lines in all directions in the occupied territory. From there, the Hiwi shooters were deployed to all major killing sites of the Final Solution. It was their primary purpose of training. They took an active role in the extermination of Jews at Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka II, Warsaw (three times), Częstochowa, Lublin, Lvov, Radom, Kraków, Białystok (twice), Majdanek as well as Auschwitz, not to mention Trawniki concentration camp itself,[1][10] and the remaining subcamps of KL Lublin/Majdanek camp complex including Poniatowa, Budzyn, Kraśnik, Puławy, Lipowa, and also during massacres in Łomazy, Międzyrzec, Łuków, Radzyń, Parczew, Końskowola, Komarówka and all other locations, augmented by the SS and Schupo, as well as the Reserve Police Battalion 101, part of over two dozen Order Police battalions deployed to the occupied territories. The German Order Police performed roundups inside the Jewish ghettos in German-occupied Poland shooting everyone unable to move or attempting to flee, while the Trawnikis conducted large-scale civilian massacres in the same locations.[11][12]

Organization

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Auxiliaries were not allowed to wear German uniforms or insignia, carry German weapons, or use German ranks. This was mostly for political reasons. The racial policies of Nazi Germany regarded Slavs as subhuman and not deserving to be treated as German soldiers. There was also a real fear of mutiny or desertion by foreigners in German uniform. To reinforce the social levels between them, guards were therefore referred to as Wachmänner ("watchmen") rather than Schützen ("riflemen") and given different uniforms and rank insignia. A practical reason for this policy was that there was a dearth of German equipment to be spared, yet piles of captured war materiel that would otherwise be unused.

The German officers and senior NCOs were issued the obsolete black M32 SS tunic or field-grey M37 tunic with blue facings. This was to mark them out from the men they commanded, but at the same time denoted them as auxiliaries rather than regular troops.

Units were initially organized in Gruppen (Gruppe ["Group"] > "squad") of about 50 men and Züge (Zug ["Procession"] > "platoon") of around 90 to 120 men. These were further assigned to companies and battalions, under German officers and higher-level NCOs. After they abandoned Trawniki in 1944 ahead of the Soviet advance, they were reorganized into combat units. This is when they introduced the Rotten (Rotte ["Chain"] > "File" or "Fire Team") level of organization at a time when the depleted German Army was consolidating into Halbzüge ("half-platoons" or "Sections"). This was perhaps adopted to deter desertion, a big problem towards the end of the war.

Wachmänner Ranks (1942–1945)
Dienstgrad Translation Equivalent SS / Heer Rank Duties Notes
Oberzugwachmann "Senior Platoon Guard" SS-Oberscharführer / Feldwebel Senior Platoon Sergeant Created in 1944,[13] highest NCO rank
Zugwachmann "Platoon Guard" SS-Scharführer / Unterfeldwebel Platoon Sergeant Created 19 October 1942[14]
Gruppenwachmann "Squad Guard" SS-Unterscharführer / Unteroffizier Squad Leader or Corporal Created 19 October 1942
Rottwachmann "File Guard" SS-Rottenfuhrer / Gefreiter File Leader or Lance Corporal Created in 1944, highest enlisted rank
Oberwachmann "Senior Guard" SS-Oberschütze / Oberschütze Senior Private Created 19 October 1942
Wachmann "Watchman" or "Guard" SS-Schütze / Schütze Private Created 19 October 1942

The guards initially wore their Soviet Army uniforms. In the autumn of 1941 they were given the dyed-black Polish Army uniforms worn by the former Selbstschutz forces. In the summer of 1942 they were issued brown Belgian Army uniforms for warm weather wear. The guardsmen tended to wear a mixture of the two.[15] They were usually issued captured enemy weapons but sometimes received German Mauser Kar-98 carbines. Automatic rifles and pistols were issued when on special assignment.

Role of Trawniki men in the Final Solution

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Further information: The Holocaust in Poland

At each of the Operation Reinhard extermination camps Trawniki Hiwi men served as the Sonderkommando guard units (between 70 and 120 depending on location) and were selected to act as the gas chambers operators. They came under the jurisdiction of the relevant camp commandant. Almost all of the Trawniki guards were involved in shooting, beating, and terrorizing Jews.[6] The Russian historian Sergei Kudryashov, who made a study of the Trawniki men serving at death camps, claimed that there was little sign of any attraction to National Socialism among them.[6] He claimed that most of the guards volunteered in order to leave the POW camps and/or because of self-interest.[6] On the other hand, the Holocaust historian Christopher R. Browning wrote that Hiwis "were screened on the basis of their anti-Communist and hence almost invariably anti-Semitic sentiments."[11] Despite the generally apathetic views of the Trawniki guards, the vast majority faithfully carried out the SS expectations in the mistreatment of Jews.[6] Most Trawniki men had executed Jews already as part of their job training.[6] Similarly to Christopher Browning's 1992 book Ordinary Men, Kudryashov argued that the Trawniki men were examples of how ordinary people could become willing killers.[6]

Murder operations

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Stroop Report Trawniki shooters during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, with Jürgen Stroop (on the right), 1943 at the Umschlagplatz, with Stawki 5/7 in the back. Their military overcoats came from the Allgemeine-SS surplus no longer used by the German SS.[16]

The Trawniki shooters were assigned to the worst of the "on-the-spot dirty work" by Hauptsturmführer Karl Streibel (wrote Browning),[11] so the Germans from the parallel Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the Order Police from Hamburg "would not go crazy" from the horror of hands-on killing for hours or days on end. The Trawnikis used to arrive in squads numbering around 50 at the killing site, and start by sitting down to a sandwich and bottles of vodka from their knapsacks behaving like guests,[11] while the Germans dealt with unruly crowds of thousands of ghetto inhabitants: as in Międzyrzec, Łuków, Radzyń, Parczew, Końskowola, Komarówka and all other locations.[11] In one case, when the Trawniki men got too drunk to show up in Aleksandrów, Major Wilhelm Trapp ordered the release of prisoners rounded up for mass execution.[17]

"Trawniki" men during the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto at Zamenhofa 42 / Kupiecka 18.<. Photo from Jürgen Stroop Report, May 1943

The Trawniki men shot so fast and so wildly that the German policemen "frequently had to take cover to avoid being hit."[18] Ukrainian Hiwis were perceived as indispensable. In Łomazy, the Germans were "overjoyed" to see them coming after the messy Józefów massacre which permanently traumatized the untrained executioners. The wave of mass killings of Jews from the Międzyrzec Podlaski Ghetto lasting non-stop for several days were conducted by the Trawniki battalion of about 350 to 400 men, same as in Parczew, or the Izbica Ghetto.[19] The German unit had shot 4,600 Jews by September 1942, but only 78 ethnic Poles, "the poorest of the poor".[20]

The SS-Gruppenführer Jürgen Stroop who was in charge of the suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and the methodical destruction of the Ghetto itself – responsible for the massacre of over 50,000 Polish Jews – later remarked in a prison interview with Kazimierz Moczarski, published in his original Polish edition of the Conversations with an Executioner:[21]

We used the word 'askaris' for the volunteers serving with our auxiliary forces in the SS, recruited from the indigenous populations in the areas acquired in Eastern Europe. They were, in principle, Latvians, Lithuanians, Belarusians and Ukrainians. They were trained at the 'SS-Ausbildungslager-Trawniki' near Lublin. They did not make the best of soldiers, although they were nationalists and anti-Semites. Young people, often without the elementary education, culturally savage, with inclination to cheating. But obedient, physically tough and steadfast against the enemy. Many 'askaris' we used during the 'Grossaktion' (especially in its initial stages) were Latvians. They did not understand Polish and therefore were unable to communicate with the people of Warsaw. This was exactly what we wanted. We also called them "Trawniki men". Myśmy nazywali "askarisami" ochotników do służb pomocniczych w SS, którzy rekrutowali się z ludności autochtonicznej na terenach zdobytych w Europie Wschodniej. Byli to w zasadzie Łotysze, Litwini, Białorusini i Ukraińcy. Przeszkalano ich w SS-Ausbildungs-lager-Trawniki pod Lublinem. Nie najlepsi żołnierze, choć nacjonaliści i antysemici. Młodzi, bez podstawowego najczęściej wykształcenia, o kulturze dzikusów i skłonnościach do kantów. Ale posłuszni, wytrwali fizycznie i twardzi wobec wroga. Wielu "askarisów" użytych w Grossaktion (szczególnie we wstępnych działaniach) to Łotysze. Nie znali języka polskiego, więc trudno im się było porozumiewać z ludnością Warszawy. A o to nam szło. Nazywaliśmy ich również Trawniki-Männer.[21]

Trawniki personnel was also used in the August 1943 suppression of the Białystok Ghetto Uprising, as well as the lesser-known Mizocz Ghetto uprising of October 1942 among similar others. In other locations, the lists compiled by the local Ukrainian Hilfsverwaltung enabled them to quickly and precisely identify their Jewish targets.[7]

End and post-war

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The Trawniki training camp was dismantled in July 1944 because of the approaching frontline.[1] The last 1,000 Hiwis forming the SS Battalion Streibel led by Karl Streibel himself,[22] were transported west to still functioning death camps.[1] The Jews of the adjacent Trawniki labor camp were massacred in November 1943 during Aktion Erntefest. Their exhumed bodies were incinerated in Sonderaktion 1005 by Sonderkommandos from Milejów who in turn were executed on site upon the completion of their task by the end of 1943. The Soviets entered the completely empty training facility on 23 July 1944.[1] After the war, the Soviet authorities arrested and prosecuted hundreds, possibly as many as one thousand Hiwis who returned home.[1] The more conservative number of trials given by Kudryashov is over 140 between 1944 and 1987.[23] Those brought to trial in the Soviet Union were tried before both civilian courts and military tribunals. Almost all of those tried in the Soviet Union were convicted and some were executed.[1] Most were sentenced to a Gulag, and released under the Khrushchev amnesty of 1955.[24]

The number of Hiwis tried in the West was very small by comparison. Six defendants were acquitted on all charges and set free by a West German court in Hamburg in 1976 including commandant Streibel.[22][25] The main difference between them and the Trawnikis apprehended in the Soviet Union was that the former claimed lack of awareness and left no live witnesses who could testify against them,[26] while the latter were charged with treason and therefore were doomed from the start. In the U.S. some 16 former Hiwi guards were denaturalized.[1]

Known Trawnikis having served at death camps

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The notoriety of crimes committed by Trawnikis at the extermination camps of Belzec [Be], Sobibor [So], and Treblinka [Tr] during Operation Reinhard have led to many specific names being publicized in postwar literature and by museums of the Holocaust, based on Jewish and Polish survivor-testimonies, memoirs, and archives. The long list of at least 234 names of camp guards written out phonetically can be attributed to more than a dozen sources in which they appear.[27] They often feature arbitrary spellings in English and Polish translation (or transliteration from Cyrillic) based on memory alone, by which the perpetrators could not be legally identified. The following are the most notable of them, confirmed by the courts, and arranged in alphabetical order.[27][28]

Picture of Trawniki guards at Sobibor, taken in 1943. Demjanjuk has been "inconclusively identified" as the guard who is front and center, lying on the ground[29]
  1. John Demjanjuk, a Ukrainian who joined the Trawniki men and served as a guard at Sobibor. Demnjanjuk immigrated to the United States, but was deported to Israel to stand trial as "Ivan the Terrible" in 1986. Demjanjuk was found guilty and sentenced to death, but his conviction was overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court after new evidence cast doubt on the identity of Demjanjuk as "Ivan the Terrible". In 2009, Demjanjuk was deported to Germany where he was convicted in 2011 for having been a guard at Sobibor.[30]
  2. Fedor Federenko (Fedorenko) [Tr], the Soviet POW recruited from Stalag 319 at Chełm, guard at the Jewish ghetto in Lublin, sent to Warsaw and to Treblinka death camp in September 1942. After the war Federenko settled in the US; he was extradited to the Soviet Union in December 1984. He was found guilty of treason, sentenced to death, and executed in 1987.[28]
  3. Josias Kumpf, a Yugoslav Volksdeutscher who took part in the murderous Aktion Erntefest at Trawniki, stripped of his US citizenship in 2005 and deported to Austria in March 2009. Escaped responsibility due to statute of limitations in that country.[31]
  4. Samuel Kunz [Be], former Soviet POW trained at Trawniki, charged in Bonn, Germany in July 2010 with being a Belzec camp guard.[32] Kunz died in November 2010 before his trial.[33]
  5. Wasyl Lytwyn born 1921; ordered to be deported from the United States in December 1995; repatriated to Ukraine.
  6. Ivan Mandycz born 1920; came to US in 1955; ordered deported 2005; Not deported because of age; died 2017
  7. Ivan Ivanovych Marchenko aka Ivan the Terrible" [b.1911-d?][Tr] in the Red Army since 1941, brought to Trawniki from POW camp in Chełm, a guard at the Jewish ghetto in Lublin and in Treblinka together with Nikolay Shalayev who was tasked with forcing Jews into the gas chambers; the "motorists" cranking up the gas engine when asked to "turn on the water", called by the Jews "Ivan the Terrible" (Ivan Grozny), Marchenko exhibited special savagery during the killing process; photographed with Ivan Tkachuk at Treblinka.[34] In 1943 he was transferred to Trieste, and in 1944 fled to Yugoslavia. Last seen in 1945. His fate is unknown and was never tried.[4]
  8. Jakiw Palij, (16 August 1923 - 10 January 2019) a Hiwi guard who was deported in the U.S. in 1949 and claimed to have worked on his father's farm, was stripped of his United States citizenship for having "made material misrepresentations in his application for a visa to immigrate to the United States".[35][36][37] Deported from United States on 21 August 2018 at the age of 95.[38] He later died on 10 January 2019, at the age of 95.[35]
  9. Jakob Reimer a.k.a. Jack Reimer, a Hiwi guard at Trawniki in 1944. Denaturalized in 2002; died in 2005 before he could be deported from the United States to Germany.[39][40]
  10. Nikolay Shalayev, a Hilfswilliger guard serving at Treblinka extermination camp. He was one of two Ukrainian guards (along with Ivan Marchenko) in charge of the motor that produced the exhaust fumes which were fed through pipes into the gas chambers during the killing process. Tried by the Soviets after the war for treason and sentenced to death.[41]
  11. Vladas Zajančkauskas, a Hiwi shooter deployed to participate in the annihilation of the Warsaw Ghetto; had his U.S. citizenship revoked in 2005 at the age of 90; at the time he was reported to be 95, but he was born in 1915.[42] Died 2013, aged 97.

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The Trawniki men were auxiliary guards recruited primarily from Soviet prisoners of war and trained at the SS camp in Trawniki, occupied Poland, who served under Nazi command in concentration camps, ghettos, and extermination operations during . Established in July 1941 as a prisoner-of-war facility near , the Trawniki camp was repurposed by SS officer to train thousands of non-German volunteers and coerced recruits—mostly , but also , , and others—for guard duties, addressing severe manpower shortages in the German security apparatus. These auxiliaries, often uniformed in distinctive black or blue attire and armed with rifles, numbered up to 5,000 at peak but typically 2,000–2,500 active by 1943, with fluctuating deployments due to desertions, losses, and reassignments. Their training emphasized loyalty to the , basic skills, and ideological , enabling rapid mobilization for anti-partisan actions and Jewish deportations. Deployed extensively in Operation Reinhard—the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews—the Trawniki men formed the bulk of guards at killing centers like Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka, as well as Majdanek and the Warsaw Ghetto, where small German SS contingents (often under 35 men per site) relied on them for enforcement, victim processing, and suppressing resistance. They participated in mass shootings, ghetto liquidations, and camp operations that resulted in the deaths of approximately 1.7 million Jews, supplementing German forces too stretched for the scale of the Final Solution. Known derogatorily as "Askaris" by prisoners for their perceived unreliability and brutality, these collaborators often exceeded orders in violence, driven by survival incentives, anti-communist sentiments, or opportunism, though some deserted or aided escapes amid the chaos of 1943–1944 liquidations. Postwar, many evaded justice by fleeing to the West, prompting decades of investigations and trials, such as those of John Demjanjuk and Feodor Fedorenko, highlighting their integral role as "foot soldiers" in Nazi genocide machinery despite non-German origins.

Origins and Recruitment

Establishment of the Trawniki Camp

The Trawniki camp was established in the summer of 1941 by SS and police authorities in the of German-occupied Poland, on the orders of SS Major General , the SS and Police Leader for the region. Initially conceived as a detention facility at an abandoned sugar refinery near the village of Trawniki, approximately 40 kilometers southeast of , it served as a holding center for Soviet civilians and prisoners of war captured during . On July 9, 1941, the camp held 676 inmates, primarily Soviet personnel selected from prisoner-of-war camps for potential collaboration or labor. Globocnik's appointment on July 17, 1941, as Commissioner for the Establishment of and Police Bases in the General Government provided the framework for expanding Trawniki's role beyond mere detention. By September 1941, the camp was converted into a primary site for guards, known as Trawniki men, with the arrival of the first groups of Soviet POW recruits deemed suitable for service under German command. Captain was appointed camp commander on October 27, 1941, overseeing the initial programs that emphasized guard duties, weapons handling, and loyalty to directives. This shift aligned with Globocnik's broader responsibilities in the District, including preparations for mass deportation and extermination operations. Early training efforts focused on ideologically unreliable or coerced Soviet personnel, with approximately 2,500 prepared for deployment by 1942. The camp's dual function as both a training ground and a forced-labor site for —following the construction of an adjacent in summer 1942—underscored its integration into the SS economic and security apparatus in the region. Under Streibel's leadership until , Trawniki evolved into a key hub for recruiting and indoctrinating non-German personnel to supplement SS shortages.

Sources of Recruits and Motivations

The primary sources of recruits for the Trawniki men were Soviet prisoners of war captured during the German invasion of the () in June 1941. SS and police authorities in the District began selecting candidates from POW camps in early September 1941, with approximately 2,500 men inducted by September 1942. These early recruits were screened by and SD teams for perceived reliability, often including ethnic Germans (), , , , and Poles. For many Soviet POWs, the chief motivation to join was survival amid dire camp conditions; of the roughly 5.7 million captured, up to 3 million perished from starvation, disease, or execution by late , prompting selections for auxiliary s as a means to secure food rations and avoid death. Among ethnic and —who comprised the majority of early Trawniki trainees—anti-Bolshevik sentiments also played a , fueled by toward Soviet rule and hopes that German occupation would enable national independence or revenge against . As German advances stalled and POW inflows declined after autumn 1942, recruitment shifted to forced of civilians, primarily young Ukrainian men from regions including Galicia, , , and the District. These later draftees faced coercion rather than voluntary enlistment, though some shared the ideological leanings of earlier volunteers due to local anti-Soviet networks. In total, the Trawniki camp trained about 5,082 men between and 1944 for guard duties.

Training and Organization

Training Curriculum and Methods

The training program for Trawniki men began in September 1941 at the SS camp near , , under the direction of SS-Hauptsturmführer , who served as commandant from October 1941 until the camp's liquidation. This initiative aimed to transform selected Soviet prisoners of war and later civilian recruits into auxiliary guards capable of supporting SS operations, particularly in . By July 1944, approximately 5,000 men had completed training, with the program emphasizing rapid preparation for guard duties rather than extensive military expertise. The curriculum focused on basic military skills, including weapons handling with rifles and pistols, formation drills, and techniques for conducting roundups, searches, and prisoner escorts. Recruits received instruction in German commands and camp protocols to ensure obedience under SS oversight. Ideological components instilled anti-Jewish and anti-Bolshevik sentiments, framing Jews as racial enemies requiring "resettlement"—a euphemism for extermination—and partisans as threats to be eliminated without mercy. Training sessions incorporated Nazi propaganda materials to foster loyalty, though enforcement relied more on survival incentives for recruits than deep ideological conviction. Methods were pragmatic and brutal, utilizing forced Jewish laborers from nearby camps as subjects for practical exercises, such as mock roundups and live-fire drills where prisoners served as to desensitize guards to killing. The program lasted several weeks per cohort, allowing quick deployment to extermination sites like Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, where Trawniki men performed perimeter security and assisted in gassings. instructors, supplemented by ethnic German overseers, maintained discipline through , including beatings and executions for underperformance or desertion, ensuring compliance amid high attrition rates. This approach prioritized utility over elite formation, reflecting the 's need for expendable manpower in the escalating .

Internal Structure and Equipment

The Trawniki men, also known as Wachmänner, operated under a hierarchical structure dominated by German officers, with filling subordinate roles. The overall command of the and deployment rested with Karl , who directed the Trawniki camp from October 27, 1941, until July 1944. Beneath him, the guards were organized into two battalions, one led by Second Lieutenant Willi Franz and the other by First Lieutenant Johann Schwarzenbacher. This framework facilitated the and assignment of approximately 5,082 men between 1941 and 1944, primarily former Soviet prisoners of war and later civilian recruits from regions including Galicia, , , and the District. Auxiliary personnel advanced through non-commissioned ranks tailored to non-Germans, such as Oberwachmann (guard corporal) and SS-Oberzugwachmann (top sergeant), the latter representing the highest position available to Trawniki-trained collaborators. Operational units included the SS Battalion Streibel, which comprised over 700 men by mid-war, along with specialized detachments like those assigned to Czestochowa in September 1942 or in April 1943. These formations emphasized rapid deployment for guard duties, with German officers retaining oversight to ensure loyalty and discipline amid the auxiliaries' diverse ethnic backgrounds and potential unreliability. Equipment issued to the Trawniki men included uniforms and supplies distributed directly from the camp, supplemented by pay in Polish zloty currency. Trial records from postwar investigations note the provision of uniforms to guards, distinguishing them from standard or SS field-gray attire and aiding identification in operational contexts. Armaments consisted primarily of rifles for perimeter security and escort tasks, though specifics varied by assignment to ghettos, labor camps, or extermination sites; higher-ranking auxiliaries occasionally handled administrative or supply roles with access to additional gear like . This provisioning reflected the SS's pragmatic approach to equipping a large, low-cost auxiliary force for mass-scale operations.

Deployments and Duties

Guarding Ghettos and Labor Camps

Trawniki-trained guards, known as Wachmänner, were deployed to provide security in multiple Jewish ghettos in occupied Poland from 1941 to 1944. These included , where detachments served on three separate occasions; Czestochowa; ; Lvov; ; Krakow; and Bialystok, with two deployments there. Their primary duties consisted of maintaining order, preventing escapes, and supporting German police in routine security operations within these enclosed districts. In addition to ghettos, Trawniki men guarded several in the Lublin District and beyond. Key sites included Poniatowa, Budzyn, Treblinka I ( distinct from the extermination site), the Janowska Street Camp in Lvov, and Dorohucza as a in 1943. They also secured the Trawniki itself from June 1942 to November 1943, overseeing approximately 6,000 Jewish forced laborers engaged in production tasks by mid-1943. Detachments of Trawniki guards were temporarily assigned to concentration camps such as /Majdanek and Auschwitz for security reinforcement. Overall, these guards, numbering around 5,000 trained personnel during the period, performed escort and perimeter duties to ensure compliance and containment of prisoners, drawing from a pool that supplied about 1,000 to Death's-Head battalions by September 1943.

Escort and Deportation Operations

The Trawniki men, auxiliary guards trained at the SS camp in Trawniki, played a critical role in the deportation operations of , providing the bulk of personnel for rounding up in ghettos, escorting them to rail assembly points, and guarding transport trains to extermination camps such as Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka. These auxiliaries, numbering in the thousands, were deployed across occupied to support SS and police units in liquidating both large urban ghettos and smaller rural ones, ensuring the rapid implementation of mass deportations during 1942 and 1943. Their involvement was essential due to the shortage of German manpower, allowing for the efficient execution of orders to murder the Jewish population of the General Government. In specific operations, detachments of Trawniki men participated in the liquidation of the Częstochowa Ghetto in September 1942, where they assisted in deporting approximately 40,000 Jews to Treblinka. Similarly, in the , Trawniki guards were deployed multiple times, including during the Grossaktion in summer 1942 and the suppression of the uprising in April 1943, where around 350 men helped seal off the area and facilitate the removal of remaining inhabitants, some of whom were transported to labor camps like Trawniki itself in transports between February and April 1943 totaling over 5,600 individuals. Other ghettos targeted included , Lwów, , , Białystok, and smaller sites like Piaski, where in 1942 escorts from Piaski to Trawniki resulted in 200 to 500 deaths from suffocation en route to Bełżec. These operations often involved brutal roundups, shootings of resisters, and oversight of overcrowded trains lacking basic provisions, contributing directly to the death toll before arrival at killing centers.

Role in Extermination

Service in Operation Reinhard Camps

Trawniki-trained auxiliaries formed the primary non-German guard force in the Operation Reinhard extermination camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, supplementing small contingents of SS personnel and enabling the camps' function in the systematic murder of Polish Jews from 1942 onward. Recruited largely from former Soviet prisoners of war and screened for reliability, these men—totaling several thousand trained overall—were dispatched in detachments to the killing centers under SS-Police Leader Odilo Globocnik's command in the Lublin District, where they maintained perimeter security, managed deportee arrivals via rail, and enforced isolation to prevent escapes during peak extermination phases. At Belzec, activated in March 1942 and dismantled by December 1942 after murdering approximately 435,000 victims, 90 to 120 Trawniki men comprised the bulk of the guard unit, patrolling the fenced perimeter, directing undressed prisoners to gas chambers, and aiding in body disposal under SS oversight. Their deployment aligned with the camp's rapid construction and operation, drawing from Trawniki's initial training cohorts established in late 1941. Sobibor, operational from May 1942 until its partial destruction following the October 14, 1943, prisoner revolt, relied on a comparable force of 90 to 120 Trawniki-trained guards who secured the camp's remote forest location, escorted transports from ghettos like and Majdanek, and suppressed internal resistance until the uprising killed 11 men and enabled over 50 escapes. A residual detachment assisted in site dismantling into 1944. Treblinka II, the deadliest Reinhard site with up to 900,000 killed between July 1942 and October 1943, employed Trawniki detachments—estimated at around 100 men—for analogous duties, including rail platform control for deportations and guarding the camouflaged killing area, with rotations from Trawniki ensuring continuity amid high operational tempo before the camp's revolt and liquidation.

Direct Participation in Killings

During their training in 1942, Trawniki recruits were required to demonstrate loyalty by individually shooting captured in roundups or during escort duties, with SS instructors overseeing these executions to ensure compliance and ruthlessness. Testimonies from former guards, such as Jakob Klimenko, describe participating in group executions in woods near the Trawniki camp in spring 1942, where recruits fired on in trenches as part of initiation rites. Similarly, Aleksander Moskalenko recounted shooting one Jew among groups of 5 to 14 victims, with approximately 50 executed in such training-related killings. In major extermination operations, Trawniki men directly participated in mass shootings. A battalion of approximately 350 Trawniki-trained guards was deployed to suppress the starting April 19, 1943, where they sealed the area and aided in the ghetto's liquidation, including shooting resisting amid the destruction. Their role extended to firing indiscriminately during clearances, often endangering even German personnel due to uncontrolled volleys. The most extensive direct involvement occurred during (Aktion Erntefest) on November 3, 1943, when Trawniki men assisted SS and police units in shooting at least 6,000 Jewish inmates at the Trawniki and the nearby Dorohucza camp. Guards like Josias Kumpf, positioned to prevent escapes, received orders to shoot any survivors attempting to flee the execution sites, contributing to the massacre of up to 43,000 Jews across Lublin District camps that day. Following the shootings, Trawniki personnel combed the grounds for hidden Jews, executing those found in the ensuing weeks. These actions marked a culmination of their deployment in , where they performed the bulk of "dirty work" in mass executions to eliminate remaining Jewish laborers.

Wartime Decline

Shifts in Deployment Late in the War

As concluded in late 1943 with the closure of the extermination camps at Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka, many Trawniki-trained guards (Wachmänner) were reassigned from duties in the General Government to bolster security at concentration camps within the , where SS Death's-Head units faced manpower shortages due to escalating military demands on the Eastern Front. In September 1943, approximately 1,000 Trawniki men were transferred to these battalions, supplementing German guards in facilities such as those under the inspectorate of concentration camps. Training operations at Trawniki persisted into 1944 despite the dissolution of the associated in May, when remaining prisoners were relocated to Majdanek, shifting focus to the ongoing and instruction of auxiliary forces amid diminishing recruit pools from Soviet POWs. By mid-1944, with Soviet forces advancing rapidly through eastern , the SS prioritized evacuation over sustained training; on July 23, 1944, roughly 1,000 Wachmänner abandoned the Trawniki site alongside German personnel, retreating westward across the River to avoid encirclement. In the war's final months, dispersed Trawniki units were absorbed into defensive formations or anti-partisan operations, reflecting the broader of into combat roles as conventional forces crumbled; individual accounts indicate some served on the front lines, with SS officials like camp deputy Richard Bartetzko reported in January 1945. These redeployments underscored the ' utility as expendable manpower, transitioning from internal security to frontline desperation amid Germany's territorial losses.

Events Surrounding Camp Liberation

As Soviet forces advanced westward during the summer of , the SS training operations at Trawniki faced imminent threat, prompting the abandonment of the camp. By May 1944, the associated Jewish labor camp had been dissolved, with its remaining detainees transferred to the near , effectively ending forced labor activities at the site while guard training persisted under SS oversight. Training of auxiliary guards continued into late July 1944, but the rapid Soviet offensive rendered the facility untenable. On July 23, 1944, elements of the overran Trawniki and the nearby city of , encountering an evacuated site rather than intact prisoner populations, as the Germans had already dismantled key infrastructure and relocated personnel. In the ensuing chaos, German personnel and approximately 1,000 remaining Trawniki-trained auxiliaries fled westward across the River to evade capture, dispersing into various units or going into hiding as the Eastern Front collapsed in the region. This flight marked the effective end of centralized training at Trawniki, with many auxiliaries redeployed to defensive roles or integrated into retreating formations amid the broader German retreat from Poland.

Post-War Fate

Immediate Dispersal and Survival Strategies

As the Soviet advanced toward in mid-1944, the approximately 1,000 remaining Trawniki-trained auxiliaries stationed at the camp abandoned their positions on July 23, 1944, fleeing westward across the River to evade capture. This hasty retreat marked the effective dissolution of the Trawniki guard force as a cohesive unit, with the men dispersing amid the chaos of the German withdrawal from eastern . Soviet forces overran the Trawniki site shortly thereafter, but the guards' prior flight prevented mass apprehension at the location. In the immediate aftermath, survival hinged on rapid concealment of their collaborationist roles, as capture by Soviet authorities carried severe risks of or forced labor. Many discarded SS-issued uniforms and documents, assuming civilian identities or blending with retreating German military units and civilian refugees to cross into areas under control. Those who reached Allied-occupied zones post-May 1945 often posed as displaced persons (DPs) fleeing Soviet oppression, leveraging anti-communist sentiments among Western authorities to avoid scrutiny of their wartime service. Emigration further facilitated evasion, with individuals fabricating innocuous wartime narratives—such as farm labor or administrative roles—to secure visas for resettlement in countries like the or . For instance, some Trawniki men entered the U.S. in the early by minimizing or omitting their guard duties, integrating into ethnic communities where shared languages and origins provided cover. This strategy succeeded initially due to limited awareness of the Trawniki program's scale among immigration officials and the absence of centralized records, allowing hundreds to evade early detection until later investigations in the 1970s and beyond. In the , former Trawniki men were prosecuted primarily as traitors under decrees targeting collaborators, with trials peaking in the and 1970s; authorities viewed their service as voluntary defection after capture as POWs, leading to convictions for aiding Nazi crimes against Soviet citizens and , often resulting in execution or long prison terms. For instance, , trained at Trawniki and later a guard at , was denaturalized in the United States in 1981 for concealing his service on immigration forms, upheld by the U.S. in 1984, extradited to the USSR, tried in Kiev in 1986, convicted of and , and executed by firing squad on July 28, 1987. Soviet proceedings emphasized collective guilt for participation in the "Trawniki system," drawing on captured Nazi documents and defendant confessions, though evidentiary standards prioritized state narratives over individual coercion claims. In Western countries, prosecutions focused on immigration fraud and later criminal complicity, with the U.S. Office of Special Investigations (OSI), established in 1979, denaturalizing dozens of Trawniki-trained auxiliaries who had entered as displaced persons under false pretenses. , identified via Trawniki records as a guard trained there and deployed to , was denaturalized in 2002, extradited to in 2009, and convicted in in 2011 on 27,900 counts of accessory to murder for knowingly supporting the camp's operations, receiving a five-year sentence; he died in 2012 pending appeal, marking a for prosecuting non-shooting guards under 's broadened complicity doctrine. Similarly, , who guarded prisoners at , was denaturalized in 2005 and deported to in 2018 at age 95, but faced no trial due to frail health and evidentiary hurdles in proving specific acts, dying in 2019 without charges. Legal debates centered on the voluntariness of service and the threshold for , with defendants often arguing from POW camps where refusal meant death, countered by evidence of incentives like pay, leave, and promotions indicating agency. German shifted post-2011 to treat any knowing contribution to extermination camps as accessory to , bypassing statutes of limitations and direct killing proof, though critics noted reliance on presumptive guilt from service alone risked overreach absent individualized evidence. Identification challenges persisted due to destroyed records and aliases, with Trawniki rosters—recovered post-war—serving as pivotal but incomplete tools, fueling debates on retroactive justice versus in aging cases. Overall, while Soviet trials achieved volume but questionable fairness, Western efforts prioritized verifiable , prosecuting fewer than 10 confirmed Trawniki men amid high attrition from deaths and evidentiary gaps.

Notable Cases and Identification Challenges

One prominent case involved , a Ukrainian national trained at Trawniki in 1942 and deployed as a guard at the from March to September 1943, where he participated in the murder of at least 28,060 as an accessory to the killings. Demjanjuk's identification stemmed from Trawniki training records, including photographs and service documents recovered from Soviet archives, which matched his post-war immigration documents despite his use of a false identity. Convicted by a court in 2011 under German law for aiding murder without direct orders, he was sentenced to five years' imprisonment but released pending appeal; he died in 2012 before higher courts ruled on his case. Another notable prosecution was that of Jakiw Palij, who underwent Trawniki training in 1943 and served as a guard at the camp itself, assisting in the forced labor and guarding of Jewish prisoners. Identified through declassified Nazi records and his own admissions during U.S. immigration proceedings, Palij was denaturalized in 2003 for concealing his wartime role and deported from the United States to Germany in 2018 at age 95, where authorities investigated him for complicity in murders but deemed him unfit for trial due to health issues; he died in a German care facility in 2022. Similarly, Josias Kumpf, a Romanian ethnic German trained at Trawniki and stationed at the Sassov labor camp, was convicted in a U.S. court in 2005 of immigration fraud for lying about his service, leading to his deportation to Austria in 2009. These cases highlight efforts by U.S. authorities, particularly the Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations, to pursue Trawniki men who had emigrated to America under assumed names. Identification of Trawniki men has faced significant hurdles due to the destruction of records during the 1943 prisoner uprising at the camp and the broader chaos of wartime retreats, leaving fragmentary lists and photographs as primary evidence—often smuggled out by survivors or captured by Soviet forces. Many auxiliaries adopted pseudonyms or altered personal details upon dispersal in 1944–1945, complicating matches with eyewitness testimonies from survivors, which could be inconsistent after decades due to aging, trauma, or similar physical appearances among recruits from Soviet POW camps. Post-war prosecutions relied heavily on cross-referencing Trawniki ID cards with immigration files, but incomplete documentation meant some cases, like Demjanjuk's initial misidentification as Treblinka's "" based on disputed survivor accounts, required decades of forensic photo analysis and archival corroboration. Recent advancements have addressed some challenges through interdisciplinary methods, such as the 2024 exhumation and analysis of seven graves at Treblinka containing presumed Trawniki guards killed during camp operations. Osteological examinations, dental records, and genetic comparisons with regional populations confirmed Eastern European origins consistent with Trawniki recruits, while artifacts like uniform buttons linked them to SS auxiliaries; however, the absence of named identities underscored ongoing difficulties in linking remains to specific individuals without surviving documents. These efforts demonstrate that while digital archives and DNA have improved traceability, the sheer number of Trawniki men—estimated in the thousands—and their integration into post-war societies continue to limit comprehensive accountability.

Scholarly Assessments

Estimates of Numbers and Effectiveness

Approximately 5,000 men were trained as auxiliary guards at the Trawniki camp between late and 1944, primarily drawn from Soviet prisoners of war and local volunteers from , , , and other occupied eastern territories. These figures derive from personnel records and post-war analyses by historians such as Peter Black, who documented the camp's role in rapidly expanding the pool of non-German manpower for security and extermination tasks amid acute shortages of ethnic German personnel. Training lasted only weeks, focusing on basic guard duties, weapons handling, and obedience to commands, after which trainees were deployed across the General Government and beyond. In the death camps, Trawniki-trained guards numbered 100 to 150 per site at peak operation: Belzec employed around 80 to 120 initially in March 1942, expanding to over 100; Sobibor similarly relied on 100 to 130 alongside 20 to 30 ; and Treblinka II used 120 to 150 for guarding and processing arrivals. Beyond the camps, detachments totaling thousands guarded ghettos, conducted deportations—such as the 1942 liquidation involving 350 Trawniki men—and secured labor camps like Majdanek and Poniatowa. Overall deployment estimates suggest 2,000 to 3,000 active in Reinhard-related operations by mid-1943, with rotations and losses from combat or punishment reducing effective strength over time. The Trawniki men demonstrated operational effectiveness in enabling the high-throughput killing at Reinhard camps, where their numbers allowed a skeletal German staff—often fewer than 40 per site—to oversee gassings, body disposal, and perimeter security, contributing to the murder of approximately 1.7 million . SS reports praised their utility in manpower-intensive tasks like rail escorts and mass shootings, with some commanders noting their willingness to perform "dirty work" that Germans avoided, occasionally exceeding SS brutality in prisoner treatment. However, effectiveness was tempered by variable loyalty: high desertion rates late in the war (hundreds fled as advanced in 1944), disciplinary issues including drunkenness and looting, and vulnerability to prisoner uprisings, as seen at Sobibor in where several were killed or deserted. These limitations stemmed from their coerced or opportunistic , lacking the ideological of SS troops, yet their sheer volume compensated, making them indispensable to the Reinhard program's scale until systemic collapse.

Motivations, Culpability, and Historical Debates

The primary motivations for Trawniki men to join the auxiliary forces stemmed from survival imperatives among Soviet prisoners of war, who faced mass starvation and death in German captivity, with over 3 million Soviet POWs perishing by 1942 due to deliberate neglect. Recruited starting in September 1941 from POW camps, approximately 2,500 individuals underwent training at Trawniki, where volunteering for guard duty offered regular meals, uniforms, pay, and relative security compared to the alternative of execution or continued . Later, from autumn 1942, as POW supplies dwindled amid German military setbacks, recruitment shifted to conscripting civilians—predominantly young from regions like Galicia and —often motivated by economic hardship, anti-Bolshevik resentment fostered under Soviet rule, or promises of preferential treatment in occupied territories. While initial selection involved screening for reliability, including basic German comprehension and non-Jewish ethnicity, the process allowed for refusals, though at personal risk, indicating a mix of coerced compliance and opportunistic alignment rather than universal duress. Culpability among Trawniki men is evidenced by their direct operational roles in , the systematic extermination of Polish , where roughly 5,000 trained auxiliaries guarded death camps like Bełżec, Sobibór, and Treblinka, participated in liquidations such as in 1942–1943 (deporting over 300,000 ), and conducted mass shootings, including the November 1943 Aktion Erntefest that killed approximately 18,000 at Majdanek and nearby sites. Training under SS-Hauptsturmführer explicitly included practical exercises in rounding up and executing , with recruits ordered to fire on prisoners to test compliance, fostering a culture of active perpetration rather than passive oversight. Postwar investigations, including U.S. Department of Justice proceedings, confirmed voluntary service through signed SS oaths, serial-numbered identifications (over 4,750 issued by September 1943), and promotions for diligence, as noted in SS commander Odilo Globocnik's commendations; desertion rates remained low despite opportunities, and many engaged in unreported abuses like looting victims or selective killings for personal gain. Soviet courts executed hundreds of captured Trawniki men, while Western trials, such as that of Willi Franz in 1971 resulting in , rejected claims of mere coercion by establishing individual agency in atrocities. Historiographical debates focus on calibrating the interplay of structural compulsion—such as POW camp conditions or SS oversight—with demonstrable free will, rejecting binary framings of either helpless victims or fanatical ideologues. Scholars like Angelika Benz argue for nuanced agency, noting varied profiles where economic desperation coexisted with ideological buy-in among anti-communist recruits, yet emphasize that training and deployment selected for those amenable to killing, with evidence of self-initiation in crimes undermining duress defenses. Counterarguments, drawn from trial records and survivor accounts, stress causal realism in their choices: unlike German SS core members driven by doctrine, Trawniki men's opportunism did not absolve responsibility, as low mutiny despite frontline access to weapons and the chaotic Eastern Front indicates complicit adaptation to genocidal routines. Some post-Soviet analyses highlight nationalistic reinterpretations in Eastern Europe minimizing collaboration, but empirical data from declassified SS files and perpetrator interrogations affirm their essential, non-replaceable function in enabling 1.7 million murders, positioning them as pivotal "foot soldiers" whose motivations, while pragmatic, facilitated unprecedented scale through willing execution.

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