Lunchbox Lecture: Unconditional Extermination: The Operation Reinhard SS Camps in Occupied Poland

The National WWII Museum
The National WWII Museum
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Published 2022-09-07
Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka, known as the Operation Reinhard camps, are much less familiar to American audiences than Auschwitz. Yet the SS murdered more than 1.5 million Jews in these camps during World War II. This presentation will offer a detailed history of these three killing centers in 1942–1943 and where they might fit in the larger history of the Holocaust.

Presented by Jason Dawsey, PhD, Research Historian at the Jenny Craig Institute for the Study of War and Democracy, The National WWII Museum

This program is proudly sponsored by AARP Louisiana.
All Comments (12)
  • @Keithhobanfood
    Thank you for this knowledgeable informative talk. It happened less than 100 years and in my opinion, the trauma still exists today.
  • @BK-uf6qr
    This is a compelling presentation. Frightening to think what men can do, how they rationalize abhorrent behavior.
  • @AmBotanischenGarten
    What looks like a "government" was an area of "no government" hence the Holocaust was possible--outside of Germany. Reference--Tim Snyder.
  • @iWyke2
    Where are the recovered photographs of Sobibor?
  • @HabAnagarek
    This is very impordent. These were not "camps", they were killing and cremation facilities.
  • @nik3896
    Excelent emision. I been in Belzec, Treblinka and Auschwitz. My question how possible burning all that victims ,no crematoria like aushwitz only pits?How much time need per body to completly burn ? How many daily bodys can cremated in some of rhis camps. Thx
  • @Tramseskumbanan
    Christian Wirth was killed in May of 1944, not in August. And the three camps underwent re-constructions supervised by Wirth in order to better cooperate with the increasing numbers of transports arriving. The peak of the mass killings occurred during the late summer and fall of 1942. In the spring of 1943 the extermination program in the two remaining camps slowed down to a lower level since most of the work was completed.
  • @AnthonyTolhurst-dw1nc
    And what was Pol Pot in Cambodia? That Hutu vs Tutsi (?) thing in Rwanda? The Turks and Armenians? Mao in China? This will happen again.