“Aktion Reinhardt” and the Deathcamps of Bełzec, Sobibór and Treblinka
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- Опубликовано: 7 фев 2025
- The Forgotten Core of the Holocaust: “Aktion Reinhardt” and the Deathcamps of Bełzec, Sobibór and Treblinka
Prof. Dr. Stephan Lehnstaedt (Touro College Berlin)
21 December 2021
Lecture organized by the Institute of Jewish Studies (University of Antwerp) in cooperation with Kazerne Dossin and the Auschwitz Foundation.
“Aktion Reinhardt” was the German codename for the systematic murder of at least 1.8 million Jews in the General Government district of German-occupied Poland. The victims were killed in the extermination camps of Bełzec, Sobibór, and Treblinka during the course of 1942-1943. There were fewer than 150 survivors, including just three from Bełzec. Almost all the survivors emigrated after the war, either to Israel or to the United States. “Aktion Reinhardt,” though it was the largest single project in Germany’s efforts to exterminate the Jews and was a core component of the Holocaust, is surprisingly under-researched. Important developments have occurred in recent years, however, such as excavations that have used the most modern methods to locate traces of the genocide, uncover foundation walls of gas chambers, and unearth personal belongings, and the construction of a new memorial in Sobibór. This lecture presents the current state of knowledge, new developments, and current limitations.
Stephan Lehnstaedt is a professor for Holocaust Studies and Jewish Studies at Touro College Berlin, where he has taught since 2016.
Yes this was very informative and very important. As he mentioned places like Auschwitz and the German concentration camps get a lot of publicity. I think it’s critically important to remember these sites, too. Thank you
There is also a story that turns out to be quite probable since there are witnesses who cannot be denied: as if there were Judge Jackson at the Nuremberg Trial, Wilhelm Wulff, Himmler's astrologer, Dr. Felix Kersten, Himmler's doctor, Werner Grothmann, Himmler's adjutant and also the head of the Peenemünde rocket testing facility, Dr. Walter Dornberger....everyone reports unanimously that probably 20,000 prisoners were vaporized with a small test atomic bomb in a special camp towards the end of October 1944/beginning of November 1944. This is said to be either in the Pustynia Bledowska (the so-called desert of Poland, the former main test site for dropped bombs in the Reich) or in NOWA DEBA, the former southern air force training area near the Belarusian border near Blizna.
Your work is very important. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this
Here is a fun fact about Chil Rajchman. One of his children later had a daughter of his own named Camila Rajchman who later became a famous singer, songwriter, and television personality.
A wonderful presentation of a terrible subject - Bless you for your on-going work.
Great! Thanks!!!
Interestingly enough I counted about 9 escapees from Belzec who survived the Holocaust. This didn’t just include Rudolph Reder and Chaim Hirzmann but also 7 other individuals. Their names were Yisarel Sipra, Bracha Ritterbrand, Sara Ritterbrand, Hirsz Birder, Mordechai Bracht, Samuel Vesler, and Szpilke. Although the number may seem high compared to the number of survivors of Auschwitz and even of Sobibor and Treblinka Belzec was almost 100% successful both in its killing efforts and in its efforts of hiding what went on there.
Many thousands survived Auschwitz. About 70 escaped Treblinka, although almost all were recaptured and killed. Somewhere around 20 survived the war. Given the massively higher death toll at Treblinka, it had a higher percentage of "success."
That isn’t correct. As mentioned in the video approximately 60 people who escaped from Treblinka managed to survive the war.
We must remember the past. Things are lining up for another Holocaust. Human life has no value any longer. May God have mercy on our souls.
There have been many similar events since the
The Gulag system continued for decades in Russia and is still active in North Korea today.
The Red Guards in China and modern camp system share some abusive traits with theor fellow National Socialists.
The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia's killing fields.
The Rwandan Genocide.
All these since the Nuremberg Trials.
@@jonahtwhale1779 Yes-Sadly ALL of these atrocities will continue until The Great Tribulation-WHEN God Shows His Wrath on this evil world,when the earth is destroyed (The Book Of Revelation)
What does god have to do with anything?
@@jimjackson4256 God is Everything. He created the earth. He created mankind. All our rules for life are written in the Bible. I pray you find God. GOD IS EVERYTHING ❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️
They seem to have done away with a lot of the docs on the Holocaust & have all these seminar type videos now. Interesting
Very informative. Could anyone provide a link to read the ss guard testimony from treblinka trial dusseldorf, 1964-65? Kurt Franz got life sentence, but what about the others? What did witness testify about daily operation in camp, or at train station treblinka village?
And Kurt Franz got out and did an interview as well. The RUclips channel Holocaust Documents has it
There are Polish archeological studies online that have investigated the remaining mass graves.
Miete and Mentz also got life sentences, the 2 that worked the Lazaret. Suchomel got 6 years, he was in charge of the Gold Juden. His secretly recorded interview with Lanzman is on RUclips
Many of the main leaders of the holocaust who were tried after the direct aftermath of the war got off with a slap on the wrist, one of the shameful episodes of the cold war. Look up the 'Einsatzgruppen trials'.
Very informative. I lost family in a camp in croatia. There crime was being communist jews.
He makes a point that is often missed. It was who the Nazi's called a Jew not what religion you practice or not as the case may be.
You are correct. Many of the people targeted during the Holocaust weren’t Jewish and identified as Christians such as Catholics or Protestants but had Jewish ancestors. In the book Maus written by Art Spigelman once his father Vladek saw a person at Auschwitz who the Nazis considered Jewish but denied that he was Jewish and insisted that he was a fellow German just like them and told them that he had medals from the Kaiser and that his own son was fighting in the army but the Nazis inorged him and beat him and laughed. Vladek didn’t know if he was German or Jewish or both but there were many Germans who were wrongly imprisoned at Auschwitz. Maybe for all we know that German person may not have been Jewish but had Jewish ancestry which is why the Nazis persecuted him and sent him to Auschwitz.
Everybody at Auschwitz was wrongly imprisoned.
The Nazis were motivated by genetics not religion. They cared who your ancestors were, not which temple you attended.
During European history the Jewish community was very often separate from the surrounding majority communities. This separation is a major cause of the conflict. A normal human them and us thing.
Excellent presentation 👍