Language:
English
Year of publication:
1999
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of Contemporary History
Angaben zur Quelle:
34,1 (1999) 87-108
Keywords:
Bergman, Samuel Hugo,
;
Buber, Martin,
;
Zionism Philosophy
;
Jews
;
Zionism
Abstract:
In 1942, SS Colonel Paul Blobel was appointed to head the project (under section IV of the RSHA) to dispose of the bodies of those who were murdered in mass killings by the Einsatzgruppen and in the extermination camps. Initially, thousands of corpses at a time were buried in trenches and ravines. Where they were not well covered, the bodies began to give off a terrible stench and there were complaints from the populace. "Aktion 1005" was initiated to deal with this problem and to cover up the evidence of Nazi crimes. The operation involved burning the corpses, in crematoria or on pyres; the work was done by prisoners who were then killed as well, and was overseen by the SD and Nazi police. Describes how the mass graves were opened and the bodies burned. The first action was in Lvov in 1943; then in the Ukraine, Belorussia, the Baltic States, Białystok province, the General Government and territories annexed to the Reich, and Yugoslavia. The Nazis did not succeed in erasing the evidence of their crimes because of the vast number of mass graves and the quick advance of the Soviet army.
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