Paul Blobel. Part two. Commander of Sonderaktion 1005. Destruction of the corpses.
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- Опубліковано 25 січ 2024
- Paul Blobel was born in Potsdam on 13 August 1894, the first son of master carpenter Wilhelm Blobel and his wife Anna, née Tralst;. In 1899, the family moved to Remscheidt where he attended elementary school and a vocational training school where he stayed until 1912. He then completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and carpenter in 1912 and 1913 whilst attending a trade school in Wuppertal. He worked as a carpenter until the outbreak of the First World War.
On 10 August 1914 he joined the army as a war volunteer at the recruit depot of the reserve battalion of Pioneer Regiment No. 24 (Cologne). On 27 November 1914 he was at the front line.
.On 9 May 1918 he was taken to field hospital number 368, whether wounded or sick, the record does not say. On 28 November 1918 he was discharged from the military.
After being demobbed, Blobel found it difficult to get work and lived in Remscheid. He went back to the trade school for the construction industry in Barmen again. In 1921 he found work and for the next three years worked for various companies in the Solingen area. In 1924, he began to work as a self-employed architect. He became unemployed again in 1928 and following the 1929 crash had a longer period of unemployment from 1930 - 1933 when he lived off benefits. During this time, he joined the National Socialist party. Blobel became a member of the NSDAP on 1 December 1931 with the membership number 844662. He joined the SS in January 1932 with membership number is 29100. He was also a member of the Reichskolonialbund, Luftschutzbund, NSV and for a time was a member of the Reichsbund of the visual arts. He advanced as far as Scharfuehrer in the general SS, roughly equivalent of lieutenant and to Standartenfuehrer in the SD which is roughly equivalent of Colonel.
In 1933 he found office work in the city administration, although at his trial he claimed he was earning only a pittance. In 1935 he was doing some free lance work in the offices of the Dusseldorf SD when he came in contact with a National Socialist official who either suggested that he could get a better job by using his party contacts or Blobel seeing how well the other person was doing, decided to pull some party weight. Whatever the plan, it worked out well for him. In June 1935, he was employed by the SD security service in Dusseldorf. His job there was in intelligence gathering and administration. He must have been good at it as in May 1941 he was ordered to the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin and thus began his ten year journey of horror that would lead him to the execution chamber in Landsberg prison.
At his trial, Blobel stated that he was appointed head of Einsatzkommando 4a in June 1941, and in that month he went to the police border training facility at Pretzsch in Middle Saxony. This was the murder meeting of the heads of the Einsatzkommando just before the invasion of the Soviet Union. Einsatzkommando 4a was part of Einsatzgruppe C, the latter was under the command of Dr. dr Otto Rasch, the two doctors before his name indicating his qualifications. The area of operations assigned to Bobel’s Einsatzkommando was in the area of the 6th Army, which was commanded by Field Marshal von Reichenau.
Blobel participated in a number of mass killings during this time which were documented in situation reports sent to Berlin and later documented in both the International Military Tribunal and in the Einsatzgruppen trial. The mass killings started almost immediately. From 27 - 29 June 1941 Blobel killed what was termed as ‘300 Jews and 317 communists in the region of Sokal and Łuck in the part of Poland which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in September 1939 and then captured by Nazi Germany. Around 29 July 2,531 people were killed near Zhitomir and in July or August 1941 in Fastow, south west of Kyiv: "all Jews between the ages of 12 and 60". At his trial, Blobel confessed that in August or September 1941 an execution took place at Korosten, around 80km north of Zhitomir in which about 700 to 1000 men were shot and in which Dr. dr RASH was also present. Documents also show that this Einsatzkommando killed in September or October 1941 on the road between Wirna ( Вірна ) and Dederow ( Дедеров ): “32 Gypsies ”, at Kyiv on 29 - 30 September 1941 33,771 Jews, on 8 October 1941 in Jagotin : "125 Jews", on 16 October 1941 1,800 people in Lubny and on 23 November 1941 in Poltava : "1,538 Jews"
A summary report stated that between 22 June and 12 October in its area of operations more than 51,000 people had been killed.
Thank you for publishing these interesting Videos
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching! I upload always every Friday at 20:00 CET!
I love your videos especially the Treblinka ones. I am very knowledgeable about the Holocaust and thank you for all of your knowledge.
Thank you. Very thorough & detailed. Some of these photos I've never seen. Great narration that brings you in & keeps you interested.
Thank you - the photos may be from the Soviet investigation which are not well known.
thank you for the video Allen😊
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this grim documentary!
I suppose I am like most and still find it incomprehensible because of the staggering numbers so systematically murdered.
Those characters in charge of these day-to-day operations must have really been brutal & wretched personalities to have mentally coped with such indecency.
Very nice work on Aktion 1005! After Katyn Forest the National Socialists understood that to keep their story from ever being told, they needed to clean up the cadavers.
Most survivor testimony claims that inmates worked very hard to preserve bodies, through omission. Their handiwork deserves recognition.
I think the Nazis knew about Katyn long before they made it public - probably from the autumn of 1942 but they waited for the right moment. I might be wrong though!
@@HistoryonUA-cam The liquidation ordered by Stalin and executed by Beria came after the start of Barbarossa. It's hard to say if the spy networks working in the USSR had let the National Socialists know.
Given how the bodies were buried, it's quite possible that the Germans knew, or collaborators might have told them. Germans always had an interest in parts of Ukraine and Poland because they were under either German or Austrian dominion.
There were definitely "liquidation" operations against all Poles, Jew and gentile alike. Leaders were crushed as part of a pacification operation.
One of my high school classmates lost one of his grandparents at Stutthoff. They were Catholic but had offended the National Socialists. So he perished there.
I do not bring up the topic of the Occupation... it hurts to remember.
@@HistoryonUA-cam It's hard to say. The Germans, having "unified" themselves, took an interest in former German and Austrian possessions. These would include parts of Ukraina and Russia that were occupied at various times.
Only dedicated scholars of those times will know, but I think that we should sponsor such scholarship.
No stone should be left unturned!
Considering the camps including Auschwitz and Majdanek, this was an incredible journey of mass murder.
The Nazis provided the catalyst of Centuries old enmities to surface and they had many helpers.
I think the trauma still exists in Europe, another War will tell.
Great video Alan. 🙏🇦🇺
Love your channel to pieces.
Thank you so much John!
There is something much like "Shoah" in these videos. Not as a parody but as a hat tip to a great master of preserving the history of the Holocaust.
Shoah showed modern Poland while interviewing witnesses.
@@jamallabarge2665 I have only seen clips of about a half hour or so of Shoah. I believe its about 5 hours long. The clip of the man who worked at the Treblinka extermination center was especially fascinated. Some people left comments suggesting that it was staged. I say no way. If it was the nazi being interviewed deserved an academy award.
@@jamallabarge2665 I have only seen clips of about a half hour or so of Shoah. I believe its about 5 hours long. The clip of the man who worked at the Treblinka extermination center was especially fascinated. Some people left comments suggesting that it was staged. I say no way. If it was the nazi being interviewed deserved an academy award.
It was an informative and wonderful historical coverage video about Paul blobel ...shared by an excellent ( History on UA-cam) channel....thank you 🙏 ( Sir Alan) for sharing....
I've been waiting for this Alan. Another dive into history's cesspool. Timely however as tomorrow is holocaust memorial day. Keep making please, your research is meticulous and your presentation is very easy to follow. You are indeed a true historian, and at some point I would enjoy a collaboration. Please take care with this dark history though. It can get harrowing and often the facts can seem banal but the work needs to be done. God bless you sir❤
Always very indebt informational vid, never miss your content. thank you
Thank You.
I heard and read the story of Blobel saying that his jews were there when the ground moved. He said it to a catholic priest who was riding with him in a german VW jeep. It was the priest that first noticed the ground move. Then Blobel said with a grin ( my 30 thousand jews ) .
Excellent.
Thank you - part three will come once I write it!
so is the part 2 of Paul Blobel gonna be above or below the waist?
Part One of the biography of Paul Blobel can be found here : ua-cam.com/video/LcIRT1FFxkc/v-deo.html
Hey Allen. I like your original style. We should do some kind of collaboration
That sounds quite good to me. I want to do some talks, I have spoken to several people about this - joint live presentations.
@@HistoryonUA-cam Could be interesting. Do you have some subjects in mind? I'm quite interested in German occupation policy which obviously overlaps with the holocaust. I've got complete collections of original periodicals called Die Deutsche Polizei 1938-42 produced for those working in the Reichs security services. There are all kinds of interesting topics in them
Hi Alan
Someone told me a few years ago the SS pioneer battalion that blew up the Crematorioums at Auschwitz Birkenau was the same unit that raised Lidice to the ground. I cant find anything to support this. Have you heard this before?? If theres any truth in it im sure it would make an interesting video.
Talking of interesting is your Jack Ruby/LHO video up on here???
Hello Gary - that is not true! The massacre at Lidice was carried out by the Ordnungspolizei whereas the Crematorium were presumably destroyed by engineers or SS. There are photographs from Lidice. It is strange that you should write about Jack Ruby as I was thinking about this video today, I was thinking about what he was doing in Cuba. I want to do the video from the home village of his parents in Poland but I have been writing it for at least six years!
Just to clarify Alan I was refering to the demolition of Lidice not the actual liquidation of the population.
Looking forward to your Jack Ruby video once its complete... also Polish Bolschevic war. All fascinating topics!!!
@@garyyoung9085 That would be that further damage was carried out after the killings took place, which I suppose is logical in the circumstance. I would be very surprised if the two were linked, however I suppose it is possible that an individual or two might have been involved.
@@HistoryonUA-camI thought Florian Geyer did the job...?
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His real name is Kim jong I'll 😊