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Operation Reinhard: "The largest single massacre action of the Holocaust,
Operation Reinhard, which lasted twenty-one months, from March 1942 to November
1943, was carried out by, and accomplished according to the plans of,
the Nazi extermination machine. It was an integral and substantial
part of the overall plan for the `Final Solution of the Jewish
Problem.'
"The commanders of Operation Reinhard, Globocnik, Wirth, and the SS men
subordinate to them, succeeded in creating an efficient yet simple
system of mass extermination by using relatively scanty resources. In
each of the death camps -- in
Belzec, in Sobibor, and in "The layout and structure of the camps were adapted to serve the
extermination system and procedure. they were relatively small and
compact, which enabled permanent and strict control over the entire
area and all activities in the camp. The material used to build the
camps -- lumber and bricks -- and the means used for extermination --
a simple motor vehicle and ordinary petrol -- were readily available
in the immediate vicinity. Local workers and Jewish prisoners built
the camps. All these elements made the entire operation independent of
outside and distant factors. ... The killing system, as developed by
Wirth, enabled the murder of tens of thousands of Jews every day in
the three death camps under his jurisdiction.
[...]
"The ruse continued even after the Jews arrived in the camps. Almost
all of the victims went to the gas chambers believing that these were
indeed batchs. Secrecy, deception, and disguise on the one hand, and
little chance for rescue or for hiding among the local population on
the other hand, enabled the Nazis to keep their extermination machine
running smoothly.
"But those Jews who were selected for work in the camps and who were
aware of what was going on there did not give up. Prisoners in Sobibor
and Treblinka succeeded, despite the strict control and surveillance
under which they were kept, in carrying out individual escapes and in
staging an uprising accompanied by a mass escape. The uprisings
ensured the survival of hundreds of prisoners and revealed the secrets
of the death camps to the world. These survivors were the main
witnesses at the Sobibor and Treblinka trials in the Federal Republic
of Germany, as well as at other trials. The perpetrators did not
succeed in their attempts to bury and burn the truth of the camps
together with the victims." (Arad, Epilog)
Work Cited
Arad, Yitzhak. BELZEC, SOBIBOR, TREBLINKA - the Operation Reinhard Death
Camps. Indiana University Press, 1987. ISBN 0-253-3429-7
The
original plaintext version
of this file is available via
ftp.
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