Operation Reinhard, this is how the Nazis destroyed 1.5 million Jews in just 3 months

The incredible rhythm, defined by Operation Reinhard by Hajrih Himmler, to improve the process of extinction by Einsatzgrouppen, the SS death squads, grouping and killing Jews behind the battle line.

It was the first horrible application of <x0 industrial methods” of Nazi extermination, previously unprecedented in human history. Operation Reinhard would slow his monstrous march in the fall of 1942, when no living Jew was left in Poland.

Within three months, the Nazis had deported and killed a 1.5 million people. The shocking intensity of homicides within Operation Reinhard in the summer of 1942 was calculated by mathematician Levi Stone and according to magazine “Science Advances” is higher than the Rwandan massacre, which in 1994 in just 100 days, caused approximately 1 million deaths.

Himmler's Order

Reconstruction of the details of Nazi extermination is not easy, because the Germans destroyed all documents they could pull. Stone began his study by the work of historian Yitzak Arad , who rebuilt traces of 480 deportation trains from cities, villages and Polish ghettos, comparing them with surviving records in the ghetto and other available data.

According to Stone, immediately after the order given by Himmler on July 19, 1942, for the final solution to the Hebrew problem by the end of the year, the rate of killing Polish Jews increased. It started from July 22nd, and maintained the same level for 3 months until October.

In all, Operation Reinhard would cause about 1.7 million deaths, of which 1 million and 465,000 in just 3 months: August, September, and October 1942, or half a million a month, 15 thousand people a day. Mostly, in 3 Sobibor camps, Belzek and Treblinka, which were the focus of Operation Reinhard, and 90 thousand in Auschwitz. Meanwhile until then, only 300 thousand people were shot by Einsatzgroupp.

Operation Reinhard, planned extermination

Intensification of Operation Reinhard was also the result of limited efficiency of SS troops, who were operating behind front lines, and who exterminated Jews, firing them where they found them.

“In the central Polish area, under Nazi control, lived a large part of European Jews, and their murder by weapons, for various reasons (including the mental sustainability of the executionists), says historian Francisco Germinario.

Operation Reinhard was intended to get rid of Jews with the most organized methods, which the scholar says meant precise bureaucratic logic, a real policy of extermination plans, and the cooperation of many officials and railway directors. “Long ago, the history has destroyed the theory, that the Holocaust had very little Nazi knowledge of”, he points out.

Nazis and History

“In the summer of 1942”- continues Germinio, “among the Nazi hierarchy, the idea had already spread that war in the East would certainly be longer than expected, and that Germany would wear even more out of Germany”. So it was necessary to end the destruction of the Jews before it was too late:

“Nasism contained a lot of political radicalism, and for this reason, the vocalization to accelerate what we can define as “the history”. “The Nazis were aware that the fight against hebraism would mark mankind's history for them, of course, in a positive sense”, says the historian.

But when they began to be defeated, they tried to erase the traces of their terrible acts by destroying all the documentation they could, as Soviet troops and allies were advancing toward them. The negtionism had begun. /Gallileonet.it 'world.al/