wiggins
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I thought I knew a lot about ww2 but only recently discovered Sobibor.
It was a mechanised killing camp along the lines of Treblinka, using the same techniques of subterfuge.
Train loads of 5000 would be 'processed' within a few hours. People would be apologised to for the 'terrible train ride' and informed that there were nice showers and to take all their clothes off and remember where they put them so they could collect them after the shower.
Showers gas chambers and after a few minutes the screaming would cease and the bodies then processed. Hair cut off and gold teeth pulled. Bodies then burnt in pits and gas chambers hosed free of blood, excrement and vomit. Nice flower beds next to the chambers to give them a homely look.
What is interesting is that the small group of prisoners who were allowed to live so that they could process the bodies were led by a Jewish Russian commissarYad Vasham. Alexander Pechersky (thanks to my dear friend Farawayfrommanners)
When they realised that no more trains were coming they realised also that they would be next into the pits they overcame the SS and 600 of them escaped. Of which only about 50 survived the war.
Alexander Pechersky ran until he found a pro Soviet partisan group and joined them. Once the war finished the Russians sent him to a gulag for a few years. He survived that too and died very old.
Note the trees hiding the fence in the back ground which hides in its turn the gas chambers and the path to them called the 'road to heaven'.
Road to heaven:
It was a mechanised killing camp along the lines of Treblinka, using the same techniques of subterfuge.
Train loads of 5000 would be 'processed' within a few hours. People would be apologised to for the 'terrible train ride' and informed that there were nice showers and to take all their clothes off and remember where they put them so they could collect them after the shower.
Showers gas chambers and after a few minutes the screaming would cease and the bodies then processed. Hair cut off and gold teeth pulled. Bodies then burnt in pits and gas chambers hosed free of blood, excrement and vomit. Nice flower beds next to the chambers to give them a homely look.
What is interesting is that the small group of prisoners who were allowed to live so that they could process the bodies were led by a Jewish Russian commissar
When they realised that no more trains were coming they realised also that they would be next into the pits they overcame the SS and 600 of them escaped. Of which only about 50 survived the war.
Alexander Pechersky ran until he found a pro Soviet partisan group and joined them. Once the war finished the Russians sent him to a gulag for a few years. He survived that too and died very old.
Note the trees hiding the fence in the back ground which hides in its turn the gas chambers and the path to them called the 'road to heaven'.
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