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1943
The "Blobel Commando" begins its cover-up of atrocities
On this day in 1943, Paul Blobel, an SS colonel, is given the
assignment of coordinating the destruction of the evidence of the
grossest of Nazi atrocities, the systematic extermination of
European Jews.
As the summer of 1943 approached, Allied forces had begun making
cracks in Axis strongholds, in the Pacific and in the
Mediterranean specifically. Heinrich Himmler, leader of the SS,
the elite corps of Nazi bodyguards that grew into a paramilitary
terror force, began to consider the possibility of German defeat
and worried that the mass murder of Jews and Soviet prisoners of
war would be discovered. A plan was devised to dig up the buried
dead and burn the corpses at each camp and extermination site.
The man chosen to oversee this yearlong project was Paul Blobel.
Blobel certainly had some of that blood on his hands himself, as
he was in charge of SS killing squads in German-occupied areas of
Russia. He now drew together another kind of squad, "Special
Commando Group 1,005," dedicated to this destruction of human
evidence. Blobel began with "death pits" near Lvov, in Poland,
and forced hundreds of Jewish slave laborers from the nearby
concentration camp to dig up the corpses and burn them-but not
before extracting the gold from the teeth of the victims.
73 - K.O., n0kfq
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