Young Obersturmfürer, August Häfner. He supervised the killing of 100
children in Belaja Cerkov (South Kiev), August 1941
34.000 thousend people were murdered in Babi Yar-Kiev (men, women and
children) by Blobel. Afterwards ucranian workers classified the cloth that
were donated to the Nazi Party charity.
One of the few survivors of Bai Yar (Kiev), Mironovna Pronicheva,
testifying after the war.
Reinhard Heydrich (2ond from left) and Himmler (3rd from left) in Prague.
They were receiving weekly reports of the massive murders.
Odilo Globocnik (in Lublin, Poland). Himmler ordered him to exterminate
2,5 million polish jews. He experimented first with explosives, carbone
monoxide from trucks exhaust, etc.
Heinrich Himmler, son of a school teacher in Bavaria. He dreamed to
exterminate every jew in Russia and Poland to colony it with german "farmer-soldiers"
Erick von dem Bach-Zelewski (left) commanded the mass murders in
Bielorussia. He organized a mass execution during a visit of Himmler.
Himmler paniked and flee the scene.
Friedrich Jeckeln in Ucrain and Letonia. Karl Jäger (Lituania, Estonia,
Letonia) were the most active exterminating jews. Jagër inform (1,
december 1941): "137.346 killed jews in the last 5 months. There will
never be jews again in Lituania".
Otto Ohlendorf, directed Einsatzgruppe D that operate in Ucrain and Crimea.
He admited to have executed up to 90.000 people. He was also executed in
1951.
Wilhelm Kube (left) threw candies into a grave full of jewish children
(Minsk).
Max Täubner (right) Untersturmführer of the SS organized "volunteer"
murders to reach his personal goal of exterminating 20.000 jews.
Oskar Dirlewanger recruited violent criminals from german prisions to help
him in mass murder operations in Bielorussia.
Paul Blobel (Chief of the Sonderkommando 4 of the Einsatzgruppe C) ordered
to hang Wolf Kieper (a russian jewish judge) and his helper in Zhitomir (august
1941).
Afterwards, the jews were taken to the outskirts of the city and executed.
In Kaunas (Kovno, Lituania) the SS helped the lituans to kill jews. The "Butcher
of Kovno" poses to the camera just after killing a few jews with the iron
bar he is holding.
The Einsatzgruppen organized groups of lituan volunteers to exterminate
jews. Women being carried to an old zarist fortress.
In fortress number seven (outskirts of Kaunas) the jews were machine-gunned.
In Ponary (Vilnius, Lituania) a hood was placed on the head of the victims
and then shot.
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A sargent took the
following pictures in a beach near Liepaja (Letonia), december 1941. 3.000
people were forced to undress in the middle of the winter, some posed to
the photographer and then executed.
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Usually it is just seen the left side of the picture. It was found inside
a letter that a german soldier was sending to Germany. At the right side
some jews hand-carved their own grave. (hand written: Ucrain, 1941, action
against the jews. Ivangorod)
The last jew is executed in Vinnitsa (Ucrain) and deserves being
photographed (April, 1942).
A truck used to exterminate jews with carbon monoxide from the exhaust is
examined in Chelmno, 1945).
Operation "Harvest Party": (Autumm, 1943).
Women and children are executed in Rovno, Ucrain (Mizocz ghetto). Note the
children and toddlers amongst the victims.
Himmler and the Waffen-SS "Kama", Bosnian&Croat division that helped the
germans in the executions.
Very rare picture: Himmler, after commiting suicide with a cyanide pill.
(1945)