2. Stella Kubler Went Far Beyond Simply Delivering Other Jews to the Nazis
While the decision to become a Jew Catcher might not have been of her own free will, how Stella Kubler exercised what freedom of choice she had while working as a Catcher was entirely within her control. She pursued hidden Jews with tremendous zeal and inventiveness, and even after their arrest, when her job as a Catcher was presumably over, she enthusiastically participated in the beating, torture, and humiliation of the Jewish prisoners.
Despite her services, the Nazis broke their promises, and deported Stella’s parents to their death in a camp. Soon thereafter, in 1943, her husband and his family were also sent to Auschwitz. Stella then met and married her second husband, another Jew Catcher, and kept working enthusiastically for the Gestapo. Betting on a German victory, she obtained a promise from a high-ranking Gestapo official in 1944 that she would get declared an Aryan after the war.