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a forest in ukraine. the scene of many thousands of murders the murderers who were from germany returned to hide their crimes. this time all they left behind were the smoking and charred remains of the dead discovered by a red army soldiers as they advanced. the nazis had tried to conceal their mass murders. nothing was supposed to remain only a few clues point to the secret on the come on those or special commando responsible for the cover of the operation. 1005 was actually the 1st stage of

holocaust denial because you could say there's nothing there. the leave is the largest city in western ukraine, this lively metropolis and the historical region of delete the has a turbulent history. today, one of the city's darkest chapters is nearly invisible who dig a shallow because here investigating a history connected with his own family, the he's on the way to a former jewish ghetto. over 150000 people were in turned here after

the van mocked concord the city in 1941. they were guarded by ss the units, one of whom was willing to go shot locks grandfather. a small memorial marks the atrocities committed by the nazis against the jewish population. here to do this thing by deficiencies. do you think this memorial is located directly at the entrance of the form? i guess a total of 136000 people perished during the german occupation when the red army liberated the city 3 years later, there were only a few 100 jewish survivors and leave. the perpetrators had fled languages for the common meaning. also, the grandfather came to the thief in june 1941, colombo. the 1st i'm is that is commando session. and i was involved in various activities, including unfortunately operation when 2005 eisen,

during which the bodies of those executed were exhibited and burn, daltons. and that means that s s officer advisors shallow not only committed crimes. he was also involved in covering them up a report by the army high command merely states that special commando, $1005.00 had special tasks. what exactly did the special tasks entail? and what role did shylock play in the ominous special unit? his grandson wants to know the truth. for years now, he's been researching his grandfather's deeds. they cast a dark shadow over the entire family. almost 80 years after the end of the 2nd world war, the victims have not been forgotten. olga coolly back now and her team have set off on a research trip to an area some 100 kilometers from levine. they've been

preparing for this trip for months. they worked for an international organization which has set itself the task of finding forgotten sights of nazi war crimes. the group came across the ominous operation, 1005. they hope to find further traces in the small town of the bro mean the the researchers have tracked down a man who spent his entire life here. hoarse new york 3 got o that who is almost 100 years old, still remembers the german occupation. clearly. the fun result is of there was a high fence, you couldn't see anything that climbed onto a pile of wood and looked over. and i saw the cool year for you to hear that

a very large hole had been dug there and the people were herded into it. okay. and so if you're oh, i'd ask. so they had to step down to their underwear 1st and all that. and i mean, it's just, it is pretty to have to thought on whether if it does or not. at that moment a german soldier came and said they would shoot us if we didn't leave. why the fuck, it's all kind of where the fuck shop. you remember as being afraid when the germans returned, he stayed away life and the they came back with trucks. they loaded corpses, toyota, and that's 100. the neighbors saw that this is the 1st time he's talking about it. how german soldiers reopened the graves to cover up the mass murders they forced prisoners of war to do the gruesome

work. here on this abandoned factory side. at the time defeat was looming. the germans were afraid of their crimes would be discovered. so you still live in here that they were on the other side, there was a chicken coop. they took the jews there on foot or by car. i don't remember who do you have to kind of didn't know you are going. it is all the say, oh, that's kind of and then the german officer came and told the soldiers not to let anyone through. yeah, you can. is there a way i can go ahead even though that i read, otherwise they would have killed me to call her love i shouldn't. is that correct? that's the only witness still alive today. aside from him,

there is no one left who remembers the murder of some 500 jewish people here and do . but to me in many places, special commando, $1005.00, succeeded in covering up almost every trace of their crimes. here only the pre war jewish cemetery remains a few weathered stone slabs. as the research in ukraine is prepared and coordinated here in paris by an organization that today has researched more than 2000 execution sites and worldwide and collected more than 7000 testimonies based in the san juan district. the group is called johan in on a combination of the hebrew word. yeah. hon. which means together and the latin expression in on them meaning in one seats. this is from the soviet commission. this is where we found the mass

graves. yeah. and here you can see the train station with here research trips to the science of mass. murder is our plan. the sites are part of what is known as the holocaust bible. it's a term coined by catholic priest, patrick the blog. the organizations founder. he remains part of the groups leadership along with german lawyer and historian. under the mon sky tv, with the views at the unique mall dealership in the beginning. the idea was to research the mass graves of jews who had been shot. we thought it wouldn't be many of what we would maybe make 2 or 3 trips a tree, but after a year on it, we were still in the same district because there were must graves in all of the villages so that quickly. so we needed a very specialized forensic methodology. i guess you won't say me, that place be sitting at the point i'm co case offer by the facts. my speech like

working on a cold case. you have certain sources, you have archive material, you have books, you of historians who write articles. and with this as a basis, you can then look for people on the ground who saw what happened and confront them with it. and then with the help of these eye witnesses, you can find the exact location of the shooting. we also try to recreate the top popular fee of the murder. you know, the, where it says we records all these points using a g p. s and the size of your name, and all of these are poor, done as a gps all we only leave a location after. we understand how the whole thing happened from dawn to dusk. all from is from them one column this to the dimension mixer truck resistance. assume converter troops talked about

until the 1990s. them off to maintain that the image of the regular army, one that followed on hitler's orders, but otherwise acted according to international rules of warfare. in fact, many of these combat units did not adhere to these rules. civilians suffered the most sag allstate by going to say on it to what we are still investigating. the details when it came, because the germans could so many people who that multi through shooting alone. they killed over 2000000 people, 50 the jews, gypsy's soviet prisoners, and don't get injuries according to official figures. and so it's a total is around $20000000.00 on to so we have just as much to do as the task force as did that. then on no thought the club i could as, as all the today, these unit stands for terror and the murder on hitler's orders. finally, shamela set up 4 of these death squads task force, a, b, c, n, d,

made up of some 3000 demand and total. they followed the regular units on their advanced to the east, their task to fight and destroy the enemy elements and the conquered territories. on the ground, they carried out what would later be institutionalized on an industrial scale and the concentration camps. the extermination of all jews. the trace because of these murders were later covered up by the special commando, 1005, and leave food to go. shylock is on his way to the former residents of his grandfather, ss 1st, officer of either shadow this building was the headquarters of the commander of the security police and of the security service. later, the special commando, $1005.00 operated from here. to use the man to take you to the car in the end. this was also the headquarters for communication with the human rights

. so all the organization of executions, ghetto evictions, and so on. were planned them carried out here to football. sherlock's responsibility included the enough skilled labor camp where up to $15000.00 prisoners warren turned and subjected to arbitrary cruelty to entertain their tormentors. a camp orchestra even had to play for hours until their fingers bled base. i told us to improve us as an officer. i think it was somewhere in the middle command level or a little below these other kind of goals and come off one of the big leaders soon nissan fall. don't forget what he was responsible for. many, many crimes had one of the functions well and the system could feed it to me at the shylock, who was responsible for transporting prisoners from the i know sca labor camp to either the not the extermination camps or the surrounding sandy hills.

the camp orchestra was forced to play the tangle of death, the holocaust by bullets, the full cruelty of which is only becoming known today. mass murder set to classical music. the and it wasn't just the size that squads, policemen and ordinary soldiers carried out atrocities, to, as described by a german corporal and a russian court martial development. so our group of 12 men was informed of our work by the group leader. what did he tell you? didn't you just? we were to gather the jews and shoot them on to the organizers of the mass. murder had planned to their crimes down to the last detail . how many people could you hear yourself shoot in movie?

if during this time, in many lives, 120 man, the few memorials mark the mass murders for decades, relatives had no place to remember or to mourn. johan, in on them, wants to change that the researchers have found hundreds of execution sites where special commando, $1005.00 was unable to cover every trace the another i witness lives here in a small hamlet close to the polish border. the

87 year old studies lama colo. she not remembers it. well, she was a little girl on her way to the train station with her mother. so it is, it should take you much be filled up in us and it was still louisiana forest. the german soldier stopped us in the push back back. he shouted to and wouldn't let us through the a live provider from a distance. we saw a lot of people dressed only in shirts. so the men in their underpants 5th cuz i saw on the silver was through 5th, so they had to go to this trench already so love to do new mexican. and there was the whole military young, the german soldiers in for food and they were shooting them, looked up with by shooting the shooting

solutions. i think it was terrible listener. we were scared when we saw the ash, my mother cried me to do it. the motion of update. sure. no waiting though. no, a busier said maybe a month later we should to i don't remember exactly that. i was there again. there was a vehicle and they finished off the whole area and covered at a table with a b curtain. and then they dug up the bodies, regardless of the people said they took the gold teeth so well. so the eye witnesses have carried these memories for decades? only now are they sharing them with the young people from far away? france, the

operation? 1005 surfaces repeatedly in connection with the atrocities committed by the nazis historian in berlin has been researching the secret operation. for many years under they undertake sits on the advisory board of johan in a world renowned expert. he's written 2 books on the subject. you have to and tell us a fence operation. 1005 was the order issued by the highest right. leadership at the beginning of 1942 for the ballots. and just get this off here because we have tons of choice it back. exactly. awesome, great. but ultimately it goes back to learn self. and so desire to remove and eliminate all nice grace and throughout all traces of most crimes. so in this case, they were to find the mass graves that can have them hoping to fund these new,

destroyed bodies. and then let me destroy the graves because on the much on what form or with what technology. and however, this undertaking was so secrets that they did not want to come up with an associate of code name for it. so canada, they simply named it after a phone number with index topple. and so the next procedure, he's stuff on that side. in other words, 1005 was the 1000 and 5th, the case of the year 1942. and that's so operation, 1005 was named the task force a alone had reported murdering almost 220000 jews. traces of their massacres had to be removed by special commando, $1005.00. but the germans did not want to get their hands dirty. they forced their victims to for the nazis, they were not considered human. but tools. that's what's the fun mention. and also boost fits into austin. log on. this had to be carried out by people from

outside you wouldn't, they were taken out of the camps. they were mostly jews, but they could also have been prisoners of war. they were considered objects fed things, feet, factors that were treated as the humanized. would you know objectified figures who are to be murdered after 2 weeks on board and according to protocol of property because they were secret bearer assisting the teeth of practical reasons, the supervisor, perpetrators, stuff o mentor, members of the security service or ordinary policeman of good. then insisted on keeping for objects a live longer lesson because they worked relatively well with all of it. so these people were only murdered when their jobs ended. when i say within the last to be forced to climb up onto these piles with the bodies were burned and slipped still. of these, they were shut there. the lights of upon flooded and they were burned together with the bodies before that they haven't previously retrieve top on these are for you all the typical what types of

words cannot describe it reported the few survivors. the one s s officer had planned to the gruesome logistics down to the last detail, and was largely responsible for the power bill, but from zoning in a city known for blade making in a mountain region of germany. the he had initially studied architecture in the neighboring town of foot, todd is story, and we hired a coy, has spent a long time researching and writing about the work criminal plug. the power global was an architect, and he worked in this profession for quite a while. here in this region, so some of this house is still existing providers. part of the exist, you don't know for him. like many more criminals,

howard lobo left his forge. why existence behind with the rise of the nazis. he committed himself entirely to the nazis ideology and went from building houses to becoming the architect of the machinery of death. this is i thought it's not i don't tie says recreate the because uh he had been a member of the say since 1931. and rose to the ranks relatively quickly. he made a career in the ss apparatus on the special commando for a which he led is responsible for around $60000.00 murder jews. that part of the so called holocaust by bullets where people were killed on the spot for on the black line later as part of operation, 1005 global removed evidence that led directly to his own crimes. in bobbino, a german military photographer casually recorded the former surrounding the mass murders in the ravine near keith. only

a few survivors were able to report what happened here, a ukrainian witness named loued meal and put on the chamber, testified before a court martial. then they started shooting the blizzard. i closed my eyes clenched my fist pins all my muscles and jumped. the fall seemed to taking a trinity. i landed on the bodies and was still alive with me when i was very cheerful. eventually i managed to crawl to a wall of the ravine. it was very difficult to get to the top. today, trees grow in the battery in yod ravine. but within the span of 48 hours, some $33000.00 jewish men, women and children were murdered. here for a long time,

nothing marked the massacre in the park where keeps residents expand to their leisure time. the only in the early 19 ninety's was a memorial, erected the to mark the 80th anniversary of the mass murders and bobby on a large memorial withheld at the sight. a light installation projected images of those murdered onto the site. guests from all over the world, travel to keys, including the heads of state of both israel and germany had song and stine, maia, patrick did law and on the day of month's key weren't also there.

the shostakovich is 13 symphony named after bobbin yacht was played afterwards. german president stein mile recalled the nazi attempts to cover up the massacre. he paid the zoo and the others. besides the guns, so less than the foot price. and so for the prison, the perpetrators tried to have all traces removed in order to cover up their crimes . but they couldn't be removed. the evidence remains in the shadows of the crimes disguise of war are still visible today. this is another reason why we must remember this without honest remembrance, there was no good future. honest remembrance is a painful process for the defendant of one of the perpetrators. after traveling into the past, returning to every day, life is difficult, the good

shallow lives in homburg. he grew up in nearby slat specialist time the. his grandfather was from shed a team, a city and one is now poland. he only came to northern germany after the war. his war time passed was taboo for a long time. it took decades to uncover the family secret. he's still putting pieces of the puzzle together as it is, have someone who does everything and i actually have very few pictures of my grandfather here. we see him here on the left as a young, good looking man at that time and being a member of the n s t a p for 3 years. and i think was

a member of the ss here is this fiance? yeah, so this is one of the few photos from the 60s, which i can be seen together with my father and i saw a relatively little of and in my, in my child's out time, these usually like to, you mean is talk gap top mine font, the homes you could with my father and mother separated fairly early on. i mean, you can john watson that someone's actually my father moved out to 1965 of all of them. the origin of thoughts was actually due to what's my grandfather had done. stop as this is something i confirmed through my research to become is got the i can sit wherever events during the time my grandfather was in the movies that my father must have witnessed as a small child of mine fought out. i'd switch through his life off course to puzzle thoughts for this assault on leaving also behind these things. naturally left certain impressions on me not to refuse. things still have an effect of the stuff.

it's like this memorial interviews and things to those killed in the ghetto and even started started and been the wound never. he lost it and this kettles, the one guy with me. the research is also a kind of therapy. now it is occupied his spare time for years as a picture has gradually emerged harrowing documents including those that relate to operation. $1005.00 lead deeper and deeper into the family secrets connections are still emerging. the trial of idols ice month. one of the key figures and what's known as the final solution of the jewish question. he was tried in jerusalem in 1961. 1 of the witnesses was a man named leland village hska. as a 16 year old, he was

a prisoner in louisiana of scott. can it help reduce the? it's a was a will of a sponsibility that somebody has to tell to tell the well, to be to the main thing and also will all the padding exactly. so that idea of the home not system was the chill on to do the, let's go, had to work for the special command, a $1005.00 undervalued to shylock. years later, after adopting the name wells, he wrote a book and spoke publicly about it. it was on the comment about sci fi thought, why trump will be doing, i'm dying old days to clean out all these bodies

and bands and my my pie and take out the gold from gold teats. we had different clips. and so that big gate one quote per box. so they can quote the other quote for was caring the cop. so it's fluid. so what we laid off and what and band one all the all war and afterwards, bobby's of to it's next what of to web bodies and to and not to was when it was high and all thought about 2000 bodies. you're put on cameras too and all but and you said that from tire aspects of pi i was finished. that was not that cool. that was called ash, cloud net color on there of anxious to talk to ashes

and to go or any valuable to wed. take no. the architects of death thought of everything, even the unthinkable. this was a bone male. even the last remnants of the corpses burned at the stake or to disappear and their valuables, sifted out. dubois found the gruesome machine in an extermination camp and brought it to paris. so that the program to suit gets configured. so it is, what do you do with the remains of the phones? so you mentioned unit 12 is there is a co found these machines pounds i can do with the village use of it to me on the left body that was employed by the germans. we don't have the money to pay for locals at the hand over the mills. they used to separate barley from wheat. and is that of most of the germans then replace the grids and set them up in the extermination come this young and fuzzy from the jews were dead and burned for on

ashes, but puts in there for work. really easy to find all the go teeth. they still how to hear me so they sort of, they don't they blah has been publishing his findings on the holocaust by bullets for years. he is the face of your hand in on them. in the meantime, many young researchers who have taken on leading roles and where they get them on a claim that's like, i think jeff was completed on co, in addition to basic research on the trips to the crime scenes, are coordinated here in paris. i don't want you to cost history or i send to them and then it sort of the hot in your hand. and one of them is now involved in the search for mass graves and the reconstruction of forgotten crimes worldwide. as it to make, somebody says what s p a and the time i 9 finds in the well 1st of all we are now

in association with around 25 people here in paris. the nice thing is that there are many young people from different nations, and that's a french or in the minority. we have colleagues from eastern europe, guatemala, and the usa. and that is always been the strength of the associations that was on the front end because we quickly realized that it can't always just be about one nation as an each them on the line as you need connections to the countries in which we work. that's how to achieve success then i think those will come on a thoughts item of employees from all over the world of meat in paris on 3 months. key often travels here from his home in cologne, where he works as a lawyer, campaigning for human rights activists. all over the world for him, the work is closely related. the past leads directly to the present. the, the,

the part of it was actually, i, it's my, i'm, i'm kind of kind of as father do by once it was you can build a europe on mass graves. you have to imagine that people are still buried like animals in these countries. they weren't never properly buried their families, their relatives, their descendants don't even know where they are. and many of these places are not even marked in line like this means that aside from some of these eye witnesses, no one else even knows exactly where these places are. the special thing is that what we have heard repeatedly is not what do you want. so why interest data instead a much more surprising question, people always said why you only coming now. i've waited so long for you. i'm so old . now. i've forgotten so much. yes, finish ones. i why weren't you here 10? 2030 years ago. and you show what's in tons with prices. yeah. yeah.

those who lived in the immediate vicinity of a shooting site often witnessed the crimes by chance, despite the fact that the occupying forces ordered them not to leave their homes. the eye witnesses still alive today were children at the time so far. yeah. how'd in one of those researchers have identified thousands of crime scenes, local teams visit the sites twice a year. maybe there's someone at the school or in the community. but most of them are already dead. so just ship one little reminder, this was once doing fed where german colonists lived in the former kingdom of alicia, to belong to austria. under the nazis jews here were hunted down

this almost 90 year old woman remembers. i am sure i was still a child from school. i couldn't remember a long line of people, men, women, and children marching through the village. i thought it was a festival or some kind of parade. later i asked my aunt and she said, yes, be sure that's how they drove the jews out for the item to take on it. you know, the nothing remains of the towns former jewish inhabitants. but there is a ruined cemetery on the edge of the village until the war, germans and ukrainians, jews or not lived on good terms. the weather and inscription reeds. the

no final resting place was found for their fellow citizens, neighbors and friends who are victims of national socialist, racial ideology. victims of people like volunteers shut off. his grandson, visits a risk site. a simple poster at the bus stop marks the announce gun labor camp on the outskirts of leave today it is a dense forest back then thousands of prisoners were shot and buried in the sandy hills. later, the mass graves were desecrated again as part of operation. 1005, all human remains were removed. a simple memorial stone commemorates at least 50000 victims. other estimates put the number of dead as high as 200000

hum, cuz there is a few method extra control and stopped the phone. many, many mess executions took place here. i want a quote for look down here in front of me. you can also see something of the geography ta, where to place this one. it's a valley. hope you have a mind. my grandfather was also active here at the end of the exclamation and cremation, of the dead was carried out here on a large scale and goes on. finally, the listing field devises for me fix these types is able to not of times i do the combination of the journey is really very emotional for me. at times. on the one hand, i get a lot of new information, but squares me on to do more research and deeper into certain things. but there are also moments when i am simply very moved. i have to deal with that. i'm in the whole, intervene a whether the plaque is all that marks the actual cam get

shot luck would have liked a more dignified memorial. so even though this time is always felt in route, keep this where we've just watch how smooth it looks like a garbage dump in places. people come here to dump their household waste on this scale to municipality, the state is whoever is responsible for it. when the goose goes, nothing to preserve a commemorate, displace, getting hooked up with anything. but this may be changing as if hearing his wish. a delegation from the american state department appears that same day. they are equally surprised by the chance encounter. we're here at the jewish sites in would be to move to memory to victims and to make sure that the ground only

places will be preserved. my grandfather has been one of the traders he was by you see. and then from the 1st day of the city, so 10 years more than 10 years ago and started research since then i'm coming back to 2nd find here, to continue with this work. and that's really must be very difficult for you, but that's really admirable that you are looking into what happened to working on. definitely gonna understand other people as well and to keep it for the future of my kids. back to this other one,

the video shot lock wants to return to ukraine. in fact, he's already planned his next visit. in germany, he's discovered what happened to his grandfather after the war via to shylock, made it through the country's d, not suffocation process without issue. not only that in full sticks, i've had to act in all kinds of if you have with my home state of the 1950s, you applied for compensation. that's why you the someone who had been involved in the war on that's to say, there were certain procedures and opportunities for obtaining financial compensation for what you had suffered during the war. so made me think and went to spending. how can you be so hard boiled and cynical adjustment to basically wipe away everything that's happened for alice less than if

a policy is vacant. i think now i'm doing what i can give it all as much as i can and please cut in half. so few weeks will come in 1961. shylock was brought to trial, after all, he managed to evade the proceedings due to an allegedly serious illness. he lived freely image less space harsh time until his death in 1974. the crimes had already caught up with his superior power bill, but the tires, the murderers, and the attempts to cover them up the architect of death and was arrested on the run and put on trial. and on back the, the sentence was death by hanging on june 7th, 1951. he was hanged along with 6 other war criminals. the last death sentences to be carried out on german soil, the

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