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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=477423" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Little-Known Death Factory</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Operation Barbarossa, <br>The German invasion of the Soviet Union<br>commenced on June 22,1941. <br>Behind the rapidly advancing Wehrmacht forces<br>mobile SS death squads, the Einsatzgruppen, <br>went into action. They killed Jews, <br>Soviet prisoners of war and political commissars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The historian Raul Hilberg estimated <br>the number of Jewish men, women and children<br>murdered by the Einsatzgruppen <br>in the ravines of Babi Yar, in the forests of Riga<br>and many other places at 1.3 million.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On the outspread yards of a former kolkhoz, <br>a dusty Soviet collective farm, <br>the SS task forces set up a secret death factory. <br>Its horrible assembly lines creaked and cried<br>in the outskirts of Minsk of Byelorussia, <br>near the village of Maly Trostenets. <br>Here the Nazis murdered thousands of Jews, <br>Soviet prisoners of war, partisans, Gypsies<br>and other Byelorussian civilians.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then, on May 19,1942, <br>the first transport of Jews from Germany, <br>Austria and Czechoslovakia arrived.<br>Maly Trostenets became <br>a Vernichtungslager, an extermination camp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men, women and children<br>Were shot daily in the forests. <br>Others, thousands of them, <br>were killed in mobile gas chamber vans, <br>on the way from Minsk to Maly Trostenets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Special groups of prisoners threw the corpses<br>Of the murdered into deep pits of mass graves.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The 'final solution', <br>the euphemistic code used in Hitler's Reich<br>for the extermination of the Jews, <br>was conducted in great secrecy.<br>The guards were ordered under oath <br>to shut their mouth. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The perpetrators of the massacres tried <br>to obliterate the evidence <br>that the camp ever existed.<br>As the Red Army advanced<br>the inmates were forced to exhume the bodies <br>from the mass graves and to cremate the corpses.<br>After they completed their terrible task<br>the guards killed them as well. <br>Finally, on June 28,1944, <br>the SS guards blew up the camp.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One of the victims who was shot by the Nazis<br>at Maly Trostenets was Vincent Hadleuski, <br>a Catholic priest and Byelorussian patriot.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Another victim who died here was Cora Berliner, <br>a German Jewess born in 1942 in Hannover, <br>She was known in her homeland <br>as a pioneer of social work and as an economist.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Austrian-born soprano Grete Forst <br>was murdered in Maly Trostenets, too.<br>History has recorded the date: June 1,1942. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The psychologist Margarete Hilferding, <br>her compatriot, also lost her life here, <br>on September 23 of the same year.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No survivors of the lager are known<br>to be alive today.<br>Since the Nazis did not keep camp records<br>the exact number of people who perished here<br>in the genocide is unknown. <br>Estimates range from 200,000<br>to half million murdered men, women<br>and children. At least 65,000 of them<br>were Jews.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Paul+Hartal">Paul Hartal</a><div class=q>
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The German invasion of the Soviet Union
commenced on June 22,1941. 
Behind the rapidly advancing Wehrmacht forces
mobile SS death squads, the Einsatzgruppen, 
went into action. They killed Jews, 
Soviet prisoners of war and ..."></div>
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