Max Möller was an SS functionary in

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and a Holocaust perpetrator. He worked at the

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during the

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phase of

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. Originally from Hamburg, Max Möller belonged to a police detachment before his service at

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. He worked as ordinance in Camp 2 ''Auffanglager'' "undressing yard", nicknamed "Amerikaner" (or, the American) by the prisoners because of his massive build. Survivors of the prisoner uprising testified that Möller along with

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were helping August Miete at the ''Lazaret'' killing station where Jews were being shot point-blank upon arrival at the camp. Möller became a notable figure ahead of the prisoner uprising, because he watched over the German armoury and had to be tricked before the weapons could be stolen from it. Prisoner Sadovits told Möller that he was needed in the potato-workers team due to labor problems there. They left the barracks together, allowing the insurgents to begin removing the weapons. After the closing of the camp, he was assigned to

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region in Italy by the ''SS''. After the war he disappeared and no further details are known about him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Moller, Max SS non-commissioned officers Treblinka extermination camp personnel Military personnel from Hamburg Holocaust perpetrators in Poland 1889 births 1945 deaths