(Bełżec, Poland)
Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide;
Hitler's answer to the Jewish Question
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| Aktion Reinhardt Personnel on Parade: Belzec 1942 |
Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator
Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide;
Hitler's answer to the Jewish Question
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| Aktion Reinhardt Personnel on Parade: Belzec 1942 |
Acknowledgments
Project Coordinator
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| Biography of the Author | |
| Forward and introduction by the author | |
| Local history and background of Belzec | |
| Significance of Belzec | |
| State of current research | |
| Note on language | |
| German Security Services: The police emerge as the middle managers in euthanasia and leaders in the death camps | |
| Introduction | |
| Architects and Planners: Police State Security Organisations | |
| Security Amalgamations | |
| Overview: Sipo-SD/SS Police in German Society | |
| Ideological Differences | |
| Police Leadership: Christian Wirth, Gottleib Hering and Franz Stangl. Police Motivation | |
| Chapter 2: | Euthanasia – precursor to genocide |
| Introduction | |
| Exclusion – Extermination Politicization – Mental Health | |
| Preamble to Euthanasia | |
| Charitable Foundation | |
| Executive Recruitment | |
| Civilian and Police Personnel Duties in T4 | |
| Early Victims | |
| 14f13 | |
| Procedures and Deceptions | |
| Secondments to T4 | |
| Chapter 3: | Hitler's man in the East: Odilo Globocnik |
| SS – Stronghold | |
| Dr. Hans Frank's Admin Plan | |
| Lublin District | |
| General Plan Ost | |
| Germanisation Policy Zamóz | |
| East Galician Deportations | |
| Globocnik's rise to power | |
| Reinhardt HQ Lublin | |
| Reich Jews | |
| Chapter 4: | Sources of Manpower |
| Auxiliary Cadres: Selbstschutz | |
| SS Training: Trawniki Camp | |
| German-Ukrainian Partnership | |
| Recruitment | |
| Training | |
| Assignment to Reinhardt Death Camps | |
| Duties in Death Camps | |
| Social Activities | |
| Relationships | |
| Security Risks | |
| Trawniki: Final Stages | |
| Jewish enforced collaboration | |
| Chapter 5: | Crossover from Euthanasia to Genocide |
| Pointers to a Final Solution | |
| Orders for Jewish Destruction | |
| Wannsee Conference | |
| Euthanasia | |
| Civilians: crossover to bogus SS | |
| Disregard for authority | |
| Majdanek and Auschwitz concentration/death camps | |
| Chapter 6: | Shootings, Suicides and Disobeying Orders |
| Shooting Operations | |
| Refusal to shoot Jews | |
| SS Shooting Practices | |
| Suicides (victims and perpetrators) | |
| SS: Discipline | |
| Attempts by perpetrators to escape Reinhardt | |
| Chapter 7: | The SS: Government-in-Waiting |
| Camp Inspectorate | |
| Camp Economies | |
| Globocnik's Labour Camps | |
| Gassing Experiments | |
| Ghetto Clearance: Amon Goeth | |
| Chapter 8: | Belzec: The Experimental Phase |
| Visionary Concepts | |
| Gas Chambers: Description 1 | |
| Survivors from Belzec | |
| Experiments | |
| Cruelty | |
| Wirth bypasses Globocnik | |
| Wirth in Total Command | |
| Chapter 9: | Deportations to Belzec |
| Gas Chambers: Description 2 | |
| Organised reconstruction and mass deportations | |
| Support personnel arrive | |
| Flow to the gas interrupted | |
| Deportations from east Galicia and Lublin | |
| Resettlement Modus Operandi Kolomyja and district | |
| Road to Belzec | |
| Mass breakouts for survival | |
| Belzec: Second Phase | |
| Final Approach | |
| Entry into the Camp | |
| Dead on Arrival | |
| Camp Reception | |
| Skilled Workers | |
| Lazarett: Execution pit | |
| Zamocs Deportations | |
| Field of Mass Graves | |
| Destruction of Evidence | |
| Burning Corpses – Exhumations | |
| Bone Grinding Machine | |
| Belzec Closes | |
| Escapes | |
| The 'Entefest' (Harvest Festival) massacres | |
| Globocnik is replaced | |
| Reinhardt Industries | |
| German War Industries | |
| Poniatowa camp | |
| Trawniki. Poniatowa Camp | |
| End Game | |
| SS Corruption | |
| SS Investigations | |
| Reinhardt; Division of Assets | |
| Emerging Corruption | |
| SS is Purged | |
| Transfer of Reinhardt personnel to Italy | |
| Post Reinhardt Deployment to San Sabba and Programme 'R' | |
| Resettlement actions | |
| Personnel knew new too much | |
| Final Accounting | |
| Christian Wirth is shot dead! | |
| Medals and Promotions | |
| Globocnik's Suicide | |
| Aftermath and Retribution | |
| Belzec Trial | |
| Sobibor Trial | |
| Treblinka Trial (1) | |
| Treblinka Trial (2) | |
| Soviet Trials | |
| Archaeological Investigations 1997-2000 | |
| Introduction | |
| Previous Investigations | |
| First Investigation | |
| Second Investigations | |
| Third Investigations | |
| Fourth Investigations | |
| Area of Mass Graves | |
| Mass Graves 1 – 6 | |
| Investigations at Ramp | |
| Four Excavations | |
| Metal Detector | |
| Mass Graves 7 – 33 | |
| Metal Detector | |
| Ramp Area | |
| Camp Structures | |
| Statistics of 'Resettlement' Transports | |
| General Overview | |
| Introduction | |
| Numbers | |
| Reinhardt Camps | |
| Numbers per Wagon | |
| Commission Findings | |
| Number Construction | |
| Glossary | |
| Bibliography, trial documentation and sources | |
| Appendix 1 | Deportations to Belzec March – December 1942 |
| Appendix 2 | Further deportations |
| Appendix 3 | Personnel who served in Aktion Reinhardt Camps |
| Appendix 4 | Community Towns Subjected to Deportation to Belzec |
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