AKTION 1005 — EFFACING THE MURDER OF MILLIONS
Operation 1005 was instituted by the Nazis to wipe out the traces of the mass murders they had perpetrated in Eastern and Central Europe. It began in mid-1942, when information concerning the mass slaughter of Jews and others by the Nazis first began to circulate in the West, and ended with the last...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
1990
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Holocaust and genocide studies
Year: 1990, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 157-173 |
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| Summary: | Operation 1005 was instituted by the Nazis to wipe out the traces of the mass murders they had perpetrated in Eastern and Central Europe. It began in mid-1942, when information concerning the mass slaughter of Jews and others by the Nazis first began to circulate in the West, and ended with the last days of the occupation This article attempts a first comprehensive assessment of the dimensions of this operation.The first stage was carried out in the death camps in Poland, and in Auschwitz until the crematona there became operational In the second stage, from the middle of 1943, the opening of the mass graves was begun in a systematic fashion, starting in the Soviet Union and continuing in Poland and Yugoslavia To carry out this task, units of Einsatzkommando 1005 were established in various geographical locations These units consisted of SiPO–SD members who organized and directed the operation, scores of German police guards and hundreds of slave laborers, mostly Jews, who worked under appalling conditions Because this operation was to be ‘Top Secret’, Berlin ordered that the slave laborers were to be murdered after the completion of the work in the area, and the German staff, who were sworn to secrecy, were not sent back to their units. As a result of this operation many mass graves were obliterated, making it impossible after the war to ascertain the exact extent of the Nazi crimes, especially in the Soviet Union and Poland. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7937 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Holocaust and genocide studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/hgs/5.2.157 |