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Operation 1005 was the Nazis’ large-scale campaign to cover up evidence of their massacre against the Jews.
A common tactic the Nazis used was to exhume the graves of their victims and burn the bodies inside. Several of the testimonies we have secured thus far confirm the Nazis’ attempted cover-up of the Holocaust by Bullets. Stefania recalls the Nazis ordering village residents to “arrange [the Jewish bodies] like pyres between two layers of wood,” so they could douse them with gasoline and burn them. Iaroslav watched as the Jews were forced carry a log to their own grave; the Nazis then used the logs as kindler as they burned their victims alive.
Paul Blobel, commander of Operation 1005, outlined its gruesome details at the Nuremberg trials. You can read his testimony here .
Paul Blobel, commander of Atkion 1005, on trial
If you are interested in learing further about Operation 1005, please refer to our website, where we have information about the symposium we will be holding the topic on June 15.
Bodies stacked on a pyre to be burned
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[...] were dug up and cremated in the Nazi’s plan to erase the evidence of their crimes, known as Aktion 1005. The cartridges from German guns are often the only physical evidence our team [...]
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