50 km east of
Salzburg, at the Attersee Lake, the
small town of
Weissenbach is located. There, just ashore the lake,
you can find a mysterious house whose history still remains in darkness.
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| Haus Schoberstein |
It's name was and still is "Haus Schoberstein".
The villa was mainly used as recreation facility for T4 men.
Sometimes the SS men from
Aktion Reinhard were allowed to
recover from their murderous work at the death camps in Poland.
"Haus Schoberstein" was meeting place for the
Belzec, Sobibor and
Treblinka personnel. Here they met persons still working in Germany
for T4. Together with their wifes or girl friends the killers spent
relaxing days in the middle of the beautiful Austrian mountains,
whereas their SS comrades in Poland continued their bloody task.
That house served not only as a recreation home. When the allied
bomb raids covered
Berlin, the T4 main office at
Tiergartenstraße 4 in Berlin
was transferred in
1944 (as a precaution) to "Haus Schoberstein".
On
11 October 1944, the T4 office was transferred to
Hartheim near
Linz in
Austria. So the villa changed from rest home to archive and T4 office.
SS men of T4 having a refreshment on the terrace
of "Haus Schoberstein" or another place nearby. The photos obviously
were taken when men from the
Treblinka staff spent their holidays
at Haus Schoberstein. Identified men: Belitz, Genz, Ludwig, Mentz,
Miete and Sydow.
© ARC 2005
