Otto Stadie

Otto Stadie (10 March 1897 – 28 July 1977) was a German nurse and member of the Action T4, the Nazi forced euthanasia programme. During the Holocaust in occupied Poland he kept the register of stolen gold and diamonds at the Treblinka extermination camp. He was convicted in the first Treblinka trial of 1965.

SS career Otto Stadie was born in Berlin, where he completed his early schooling and then trained as a nurse in a clinic for venereal disease in the city. He remained at Treblinka for eight months with the rank of Sergeant Major. One of his jobs was to meet arriving trains and inform passengers that they would be taken to shower and change into new clothes before boarding a new transport to their work destination the following day. At his trial, Stadie said, "I knew that was a devilish lie but they believed me." Stadie also kept the register of stolen gold and diamonds, as the "right hand" of Kurt Franz and the camp commandant. He supervised the Trawniki men in the same capacity. Stadie was captured by the Americans in 1945 and released in Italy as person of no particular interest. and sentenced at Düsseldorf to seven years' imprisonment during the first trial of the former SS men from Treblinka. He died in 1977 at the age of 80.