Erich Fuchs

Who was Erich Fuchs?

Erich Fritz Erhard Fuchs was an SS-Scharführer who worked for the Action T4 euthanasia program and Operation Reinhard phases of the Holocaust.

Fuchs began his career as a skilled motor mechanic. He joined the Nazi Party and the SA in May 1933. In 1940 he was drafted into the Action T4 euthanasia program. He served as Dr. Irmfried Eberl's driver while Eberl was Medical Director of the T-4 killing centers at Brandenburg and Bernburg. Fuchs was present for many of the gassings of disabled people.

In February 1942 Fuchs was transferred to Bełżec extermination camp for six weeks to install gas chambers. Fuchs later testified about his arrival at Belzec:

After this, in April he moved to Sobibor extermination camp for at least four weeks. In Fuchs's own words:

While at Sobibor, Fuchs also operated this engine as it fed the gas chambers. Now an SS-Scharführer, Fuchs went to Treblinka extermination camp, under the command of his old boss Eberl. He would later testify:

Near the end of 1942, Fuchs returned briefly to Bernburg Euthanasia Centre.