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a forest and 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 and off or special commando responsible for the cover up the operation. 1005 was actually the 1st stage of

holocaust denial because you could say there's nothing there. the levine is the largest city in western ukraine, this lively metropolis and the historical region of glitzy a has a turbulent history. today, one of the cities darkest chapters is nearly invisible. good, charlotte is 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 mock conquered the city. in 1941. they were guarded by ss 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. 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 statement. when the red army liberated the city 3 years later, there were only a few 100 jewish survivors and leave the perpetrators had fled. my old. com, i mean, you know, it's, the grandfather came to the fif in june 1941. come on, the 1st i'm, that's come under session and i was involved in various activities, a lot of extra, including unfortunately operation, $1005.00 vice during which the bodies of those executed were exuberant and burned

organs. and that means that s s officer, advisors shylock, 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 the vi they've been

preparing for this trip for months. they work 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 researchers have tracked down a man who spend his entire life here horse new york, because he got little bitch 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

a very large hole. they've been dug there and the people were herded into a truck here. oh, i know so, so they had to strip down to their underwear 1st. $10.00 rates as it is, people have to start 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 wood shop. you remember as being afraid when the germans returned, he stayed away. life and the they came back with the trucks. they loaded corpses, toyota, and that's for, for 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 i have to kind of didn't know you are going, it is all that they own this cars and then the german officer game and told the soldiers not to let anyone through the idea. is there a way i can go ahead even keep that sort of iran, otherwise they would have killed me to a level or should that so that's definitely 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 pro mean in many places, special commando, 1005, 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 world wide and collected more than 7000 testimonies based in the sam twan district. the group is called johan in on a combination of the hebrew word, johan, which means together. and the latin expression in on them. meaning in one sense of the seats. this is from the soviet commission. this

is where we found the mass graves. yeah. and here you can see the train station here research trips to the sites of mass. murder is our plan. the minute the sites are part of what is known as the holocaust by bullets, a term coined by catholic priest, patrick dubois, the organizations founder. he remains part of the groups leadership along with german lawyer and his story and on today. well, mine sky tv with the views it through nick mall dealership in the beginning. the idea was to research the mass graves of jews who had been shots. we thought that wouldn't be many of what we would maybe make 2 or 3 trips. but after a year, 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 don't send me that place considering it or when i'm cool with case offer by the past my speech like working

on a cold case, you have certain sources. you have archive material, you have books. i think 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 topography of the murder, you know the word. so we record all these points using a g p. s and the size of your name, and all of these are posted on as a gps all we only leave a location after. we understand how the whole thing happened from dawn to dusk off from is funded wong, calling this to the mixer. truck resistance. assume fire troops up

until the 19 ninety's them off to maintain the image of a 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 have suffered the most sag, oh say 5 or say only to what we are still investigating. the details when it came, cuz the germans cool. so many people who got an office for shooting alone, they killed over 2000000 people, do gypsies, sophia prisoners, and thought good injuries, according to official figures. and so here the total is around $20000000.00 to so we have just as much to do as the task force has did that bent on no thought the club ike or designs as both the today. these unit stands for terror and the murder on hitler's orders. finally, shimla setup 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 advance 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 trade cause of these murderers were laid are covered up by the special commando, $1005.00, and leave 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 the security service leader. the special commando, $1005.00, operated from here. the estimated tickets inside the office in the end, this was also the headquarters for communication with the union, right?

so while the organization of executions, ghetto, evictions, and so on were planned them carried out here to football. sherlock's responsibility included the and off 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. case. i don't feel that as an officer. i think he was so we're in the middle command level or a little below is the candidate goals and come out one of the big leaders. so when he found fault on which he was responsible for many, many crimes at one of the functions well and the system could feed it to me at the shylock, who was responsible for transporting prisoners from the on the gun labor camp to either the nazi extermination camps or the surrounding sandy hills.

the camp orchestra was forced to play the tangle of death a holocaust by bullets, the full cruelty of which is only becoming known today. mass murder, set to classical music. and it wasn't just the squads, policeman and ordinary soldiers carried out atrocities 2, as described by a german corporal and a russian court martial. the ones who called me so it's my, our group of 12 men was informed of our work by the group leader. what did he tell you? didn't you just said we were to gather the jews and shoot them on the axis? the organizers of the mass murder had planned to their crimes down to the last detail. how many people did you hear yourself shoot innovative during this time?

in terms of eve, 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 study slab of 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 will still louisiana forrest, the german soldier stopped us enough nicholas back back. he shouted to him and wouldn't let us through the a la prolog dealer from a distance we saw a lot of people dressed only in shirts. so the men in their underpants so stiff cuz on the guest. so she refused to, they had to go to this trench for the sole doctor to new mexican. and there was the whole military young, the german soldiers in a full boot and they were shooting almost up with the shooting. the shooting nose

ocean looked like it was terrible sna. we were scared when we saw the ash. my mother cried me to it though there's more shit and love that show no way. no, no, a business said maybe a month later we should to, i don't remember exactly that. i was there again. there was a vehicle and they fenced off the whole area and covered at a table with a big curtain. and then they dug up the bodies, regardless of the people said they took the gold teeth so well. so as 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. let's anticipate this off here because we have tons to trace 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 destroy the graves uses 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 stapo. 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 on the dock. so authoration, 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. an awesome booster fits into austin. log on. this had to be carried out by people from

outside you wouldn't, it's clay were taken out of the cups. they were mostly jews, but they could also have been prisoners of war. they were considered a 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 dory, and retired. a court has spent a long time researching and writing about the work criminal plug. the power blow bu was an architect. and he worked in this profession for quite a while. here in this region, so why are some of this house is still existing dividers? how does that exist? you don't know for him. like many war criminals, how it billable left his voice?

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 probably not, i don't sizes recreate the, because i don't have the ability. it's been a member of the say since 1931 and rose to the ranks relatively quickly. he made a career in the s s 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 some of the last long and later as part of operation. 1005 global removed evidence that led directly to his own crimes. in by being a german military photographer can actually recorded the horror surrounding the mass murders in the ravine near keith. only

a few survivors were able to report what happened here, a ukrainian witness named meal and put on each i have testified before the court martial then they started shooting the blizzards. i closed my eyes clenched my fist, tins all my muscles and jumped on the fall seemed to taking a trinity. i landed on the bodies and was still alive me when i was very cheerful. no, 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 body 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 and spend 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, was held at the side 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, a patrick did law and on the months key were 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 front price. and so for the tristan, 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, a painful process for the descendant of one of the perpetrators. after traveling into the past, returning to every day, life is difficult, the good

shallow lives in humbug. he grew up in nearby, she laughed, specialist time his grandfather was from team. a city in what is now poland. he only came to northern germany after the war is 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 does 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,

i think was a member of the ss in the parents. 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 him in my, in my child's out time. these usually let teeth means talk gap top mine font the homes, each with my father and mother separated fairly early on. and you can john watson that someone's actually my father moved out to 1965 and of the origin of thoughts was actually due to what's my grandfather had done. scott, this is something i confirmed through my research to become is got the i can say wherever events during the time my grandfather was a new fever that my father must have witnessed as a small child of mine popped out, i'd switch through his life off course to the south, that's for this assault on leave. most of these things not truly left certain impressions on me, not to refuse things still have an effect of the stuff. it's like this memorial and

the reasons they just always killed in the ghetto. and even starters, done been the wound never. he lost it. and this kettles, the one guy or 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, of ice month, one of the key figures and what's known as the final solution of the jewish question. he was tried in jerusalem and 1961. 1 of the witnesses was a man named legal invalid hska. as a 16 year old, he was

a prisoner and leaves. you all know scott can help reduce this. it was a will of a sponsibility that somebody has to tell to tell to a well beats the remaining time 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 come on the policy 5 thought why trump will be don't i'm the old days to clean out all these bodies and bands i'm i've kaya and they called the gold from gold

teeth. we had different clips. and so that big gate one quote per box. so they can quote, so i that quote for was tearing, the cop says to the what we laid off and what and band one all the all towards. and afterwards, bobby's of to it's next lot 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. so, you know, but and you said that on the higher aspects of pyre i was finished. that was not that cool. that was called ash colorado. net color, all 9 of anxious to talk to ashes. and to go,

oh, add new, valuable to web. take know the architects of death thought of everything, even the unthinkable. this was a bone meal. even the last remnants of the corpse has 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 at the covenant pursuit gets confidence. so it is, what do you do with the remains of the phones? so imagine unit 12 is there is a co found these machines, pounds acting 2 years at the village of 18, male plus bodies that was employed by the germans. we don't have the money to pay for locals. that's a hand over the mills. they used to separate the barley from which is that of most of the germans then replaced the grids and set them up in the extermination. come this young and fuzzy on the jews were dead and burned for on ashes. but put in

there for work, a really easy to to find all the go teeth. they still out of a sort of a to the on the wall has been publishing his findings on the holocaust by bullets for years. he is the face of johan in on them. in the meantime, many young researchers who have taken on leading roles and where they get an a claim that's like i've addressed with people that don't call in addition to basic research on the trips to the crime scenes are coordinated here in paris. i know if it was difficult to treat or less, and you had them and it sort of deal hot in your hand. and one of them is now involved in the search for mass graves and the reconstruction of forgotten crimes. worldwide. nissan mazda is what s p a and the timeline on fines and 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 the french are in the minority schools. and we have colleagues from eastern europe, guatemala, and the usa. and that has 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. astonished them on the line as you need connections to the countries in which we work. that's how to achieve success in our life, and those will come on of thoughts. i'm aflame employees from all over the world of meat in paris on today. well, monkey 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 that size my, i'm, i'm kinda kind of his father do. baldwin said 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 by much. 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 a why interest stage? instead a much more surprising question, people only 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 one's eyes. why weren't you here 10? 2030 years ago in the show. what's in confidence 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. hard and who knows, researchers have identified thousands of crime, seems 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 show up on what this was once doing fed where german colonists lived in the former kingdom of alicia, which belonged to austria under the nazis jews here were hunted down

this almost 90 year. old woman remembers she was still a child. 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, that's how they drove the jews out for the ion. uh, you know, nothing remains of the town's 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 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 5 to shut off. his grandson, visits a risk site. a simple poster at the bus stop marks the on of sky 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 stuff to fulton. many, many mess executions took place here. i want a quick 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 here with my 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 then goes on. finally, the listing field devises from a fix. these types is able to not of times i do, the combination of the journey is really very emotional for new times. on the one hand, i get a lot of new information that spurs 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

reed to get shot luck would have liked a more dignified memorial. so even though this time is always feel, can we 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. so when the goose does nothing to preserve a commemorate, displace, good thing to do. 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. did you were sites in with the 2 victims and to make sure that the the ground places

will be preserved. my grandfather has been one of the traders. he was by seal them from the 1st part of the city. so 10 years more than 10 years ago and started research since then i'm coming back the 2nd time here to continue this work that's really must be very difficult for you, but that's really admirable that you are looking into what happens to working on definitely get understandable for other people as well, and to keep it for the future. my kids are 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 notification process without issue. not only that in full sticks, i've had to act in all kinds of if you have with my whole state of the 1950s he applied for compensation. that's why you think 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 to spend then how can you be so hard boiled and cynical adjustment to basically wipe away everything that's happened for alice less than that for plus the it is vacant. i

think now i'm doing what i can do, even 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 and it's less space hostile 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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