Paul Blobel
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Paul Wilhelm Hermann Blobel was a German Sicherheitsdienst commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust. He organised the Babi Yar massacre, the largest massacre of
Blobel in 1947
Early war-time ID issued to Paul Blobel by the "Volkswohlfahrt", Nazi Germany's welfare organization
Blobel in SS uniform
Blobel is sentenced to death at the Einsatzgruppen trial, 10 April 1948.
Sonderaktion 1005
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Sonderaktion 1005, also called Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion, was a top-secret Nazi operation conducted from June 1942 to late 1944. The goal of the project was to hide or destroy any evidence of th
Paul Blobel
…pioneered the use of the gas van, and, following re-assignment, developed the gas chambers for the extermination camps. From late 1942 onwards, he led Sonderaktion 1005, wherein millions of bodies were exhumed at sites across Eastern Europe in an effort to erase all evidence of the Holocaust and specifically of Operation…
Burning of bodies at Auschwitz-Birkenau by Sonderkommando prisoners in 1944 (secret photo by prisoner Alberto Errera)
Paul Blobel, beard grown in prison