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By June 1942, a special unit for the so-called "Sonderaktion 1005" was organized to supervise the burning of victims' bodies in the extermination camps such as Chelmno, Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz. SS-Standartenfuhrer Paul Blobel became its commanding officer. Before June 1942, Blobel was the commander of Sonderkommando 4a in Einsatzgruppe C, and as such carried out mass executions in Kiev (e.g. Babi Yar) and other areas in the Ukraine in 1941 and 1942. Sonderkommando 1005 (SK 1005) returned to sites of mass murder in the occupied areas of eastern Poland and the Soviet Union to destroy the evidence of mass killings. The bodies from mass graves were exhumed and burned in huge pyres. Jewish forced laborers from nearby camps were often forced to perform the work under the SK 1005's supervision. Those prisoners were often killed themselves as soon as the task was finished in the local area. Some managed to escape and survive the war. (en-US)

Fonte

Peter Klein (HG.), Die Einsatzgruppen in der besetzten Sowjetunion 1941/1942, Bd. 6, Berlin, Germany, Publikation der Gedenkstaette Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz, 1997. pp. 71-84

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• discriminazione e persecuzione