Paul blobel trial

His S. He also joined the Schutzstaffel SS , the organisation tasked with all kinds of security and police matters during the years of the Third Reich. Here he occupied himself with spying on socialdemocrats and communists. In he summer of , in the German town of Pretzsch, the SD prepared for a special action which had to be undertaken by the security service during the invasion of the Soviet Union Operation Barbarossa. Special units were trained in Pretzsch, consisting of men from the SD, the Waffen-SS and the Ordnunspolizei, who had to advance behind the frontline troops in order to execute communist politicians, party officials, Jews working in party and state agencies and "saboteurs, propagandists, guerillafighters, raiders and agitators".

A total of four of those Einsatzgruppen were established, each consisting of a few Sonderkommandos and Einsatzkommandos. Operation Barbarossa was launched on June 22nd, Blobels Sonderkommando 4a swung into action in the Ukraine, in the area under the auhority of 6th Army under Generalfeldmarschall Walter von Reichenau Bio Von Reichenau. The children were kept apart under atrocious conditions in a building guarded by Ukranian volunteers. Execution of the children was temporarily suspended by Oberstleutnant Helmuth Groscurth, first officer on the General Staff of the Infanterie Division.

He had drafted a report in which he wrote that the execution of women and children "did not differ in any way from the atrocities perpetrated by the enemy". Walter von Reichenau rejected this argument and argued this report never should have neen drafted. I protested: "Those are all young men; how must I justify to them they will have to shoot young children? I protested again: "How should they do that, after all, they have young children too.

This arguing took some ten minutes. I later suggested that the Ukranian field militia of the field commander should execute the children. Not a single protest was raised against that proposal".

Shortly after the children of Belya Tserkov had been executed by members of the Ukranian militia, Blobel and his Sonderkommando arrived in Kiev.

Bombs placed by the N. As a result, many German soldiers had lost their lives. Blobel justified the extermination of the Kiev Jews as a reprisal for the damage caused for which the Jewish citizens - mainly the eldery, women and children - could in no way be blamed.

On September 29th, the Jews were ordered to assemble at a certain location. They were told they would be deported from there to labor camps. In reality however, they were executed in a ravine in Babi Jar, northwest of Kiev. That they would in fact be executed has hardly become known up till now; based on recent experience, this would hardly have met any resistance anyway ".

I have seen the bodies myself as they were unloaded from the trucks ". From June to the end of , a total of Erwin Weinmann because he was, according to his own statement "transferred to Berlin as a punishment".

This measure was probably taken due to his excessive drinking. Like many other leaders and members of the Einsatzgruppen , he had started drinking more and more because physically and mentally,he could no longer cope with his crimes. The German historian Guido Knopp wrote: " Blobel belonged to those habitual killers who nonetheless experienced the emotional consequences. Quite a few could not cope with their own crimes.

They suffered nervous breakdowns, ulcers or some other psychosomatic disorders or began drinking excessively. Others lost themselves in unrestrained sadism and tortured and murdered at will ". In the spring of , Himmler decided that the remains of Jews and other victims of the Einsatzgruppen who had been buried in mass graves in the Soviet Union be cleared away. The same had to be done wih the victims of the extermination camps who had not been cremated but also buried in mass graves, in order to keep this horrendous crime hidden from the outside world.

Reinhard Heydrich was charged with this operation. Beginning in the Mossad conducted an operation in Buenos Aries, Argentina to locate Adolph Eichmann may his name be blotted out and subsequently bring him to justice. Eichmann was hanged, his body cremated, and his ashes scattered over the sea. This post will put some of those questions to rest. From a legal standpoint, critics point to irregularities of authority and methodology in prosecuting that monster.

For instance, Holocaust survivor Joseph Reznik presented gruesome testimony to the presiding Israeli tribunal about his experience with Sonderkommando , a unit charged with exhuming corpses from mass graves to destroy evidence of Nazi crimes.

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