Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Kurt Gerstein across 5 places, from 1935 to 1942.
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Kurt Gerstein (11 August 1905, Münster, German Empire – 25 July 1945, Paris, France) was a German mining engineer, a member of the Nazi Party from 1933, of the SA in 1934, and later of the SS Hygiene Institute (Hygiene-Institut der Waffen-SS) from 1941 in Berlin.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Kurt Gerstein was documented, and when
1935year
Territory of the Saar Basinattested“In 1935, he was employed at the Saar mines, a state-run enterprise following the return of the Saar to Germany by plebiscite.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
1935year
Germanyattested“In 1935, he was employed at the Saar mines, a state-run enterprise following the return of the Saar to Germany by plebiscite.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
1939 to 1945period
Belzec extermination campattested“In his later major work on the Holocaust, L'Allemagne nazie et les Juifs, 1939–1945, Friedländer again relied on Gerstein’s testimony concerning the gassing he witnessed at Bełżec in , as well as his attempt to alert a Swedish diplomat,…”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
October 1940month
Düsseldorfattested“In October 1940, he left his position at Wintershall to work at his grandfather’s locomotive pump factory in Düsseldorf where he remained until .”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
20 August 1942exact date
Berlinattested“On the return journey, on 20 August 1942, Gerstein spoke to Baron Göran von Otter, secretary of the Swedish consulate in Berlin, and described the extermination he had witnessed.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
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1925year
University of Marburgmentioned“In 1925, Kurt Gerstein enrolled at the University of Marburg, where, at his father’s request, he joined the student fraternity “Teutonia”.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
1933year
Hagenmentioned“Nevertheless, Judge Louis Gerstein warned Jewish lawyers in Hagen of the first anti-Jewish measures introduced by the Nazi regime in 1933 and expressed his regret over these policies.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
30 January 1935exact date
Hagenmentioned“On 30 January 1935, he attended a performance in Hagen of the anti-Christian play Wittekind, inspired by the figure of Widukind of Saxony and written by Edmund Kiss.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
15 October 1936exact date
Saarbrückenmentioned“Despite interventions on his behalf by senior figures of the Confessing Church and by his father, Gerstein was sentenced to six weeks’ detention in Saarbrücken and formally expelled from the NSDAP by the Gau court of Saar-Palatinate on 1…”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
January 1937month
Bochummentioned“He appeared before the regional party court in Bochum in early January 1937 and later appealed to the Supreme Court of the NSDAP in Munich.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
January 1937month
Munichmentioned“He appeared before the regional party court in Bochum in early January 1937 and later appealed to the Supreme Court of the NSDAP in Munich.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
17 August 1942exact date
Belzec extermination campmentioned“On 17 August 1942, together with Rolf Günther and Wilhelm Pfannenstiel, Gerstein witnessed at Belzec the gassing of some 3,000 Jews who had arrived by train from Lwow.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
17 August 1942exact date
Lwowmentioned“On 17 August 1942, together with Rolf Günther and Wilhelm Pfannenstiel, Gerstein witnessed at Belzec the gassing of some 3,000 Jews who had arrived by train from Lwow.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
5 March 1944exact date
Helsinkimentioned“In his writings, he emphasized submission to God and personal accountability, themes that also appear in a letter to his father dated 5 March 1944, written from a military hospital in Helsinki.”source: Wikipedia: Kurt Gerstein
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