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the, 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 where 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 up the operation. 1005 was actually the 1st state age of holocaust denial because you could say there's nothing there. the levine is the largest city in western ukraine of this lively metropolis in the historical region of deletes. yeah. has a turbulent history today. one of the city's darkest chapters is nearly invisible. who dig a shallow oak 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 turn. 2 year 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. language. com and really also my grandfather came to the fif in june 1941, colombo. the 1st i'm is that's commando session. and i was involved in various activities including unfortunately operation $1005.00 ice and during which the

bodies of those executed were exhibited. and burned, and that means that s s officer, advisor shylock not only committed crimes. he was also involved in covering them up a report by the army high command, a 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 of 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 bach 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 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 the researchers have tracked down a man who spend his entire life here. of course, new york 3 got old bitch who is almost 100 years old, still remembers the german occupation clearly thought. but from the 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 had been dug there, and the people were herded into it into

a funeral arrangement. so that so they had to strip down to their underwear 1st $10.00. i mean, it's just, it is free 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 fit the song where the fuck shot. you remember as being afraid when the germans returned, he stayed away. the they came back with trucks. they loaded corpses. and that's 100 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 should be around 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 to say, oh, that's kind of and then the german officer came and told the soldiers not to let anyone through the way i can go ahead even keep out of the top of it. i ran otherwise they would have killed me to quote for love. i said that is that correct? that 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 all 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 and 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 sam twan district, the group is called johan in on a combination of the hebrew word. yeah. hod, 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. and here you can see the train station with here research trips to the science of mass murders, 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 monkey tv, what they've used it through nick mall dealership in the beginning. the idea was to research the mass graves of jews who had been shots. we thought it wouldn't be many of what we would maybe make 2 or 3 trips. 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 the very specialized forensic methodology. i guess you won't see me that it plays by sitting in the case of a by the past. my speech like working on a cold case. you have certain sources,

you have archive material, you have books. i think a few 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 hungry 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 pointed on as a gps all we only leave a location after we understand how the whole thing happened from dawn to dusk off is funded wong, calling this to the launch of extra truck resistance. assume converter troops 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 suffered the most sac. allstate bible was se on it was a little we are still investigating the details when it came because the germans cool. so many people who got an office from shooting alone, they killed over 2000000 people, 50 the jews, gypsies, sophia prisoners, and don't get injuries according to official figures. and so it's a total is around $20000000.00 to. so we have just as much to do as the task force as did back then on no thought the club. i equities as both the today, these units stand for terror and the murder on hitler's orders. finally, shamela set up 4 of these death squads task force, a, b, c, and d,

made up of some $3000.00 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 in the concentration camps. the extermination of all jews, the trade cause of these murders were later 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 shotwell, this building was the headquarters of the commander of the security police and of the security service. later the special command, a $1005.00 operated from here to us and then if it gets installed at 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 plan that we carried out here to work. your football, shy locks responsibility included the an off sky 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. ok, so i just want to go through that as an officer. i think he was somewhere in the middle command level or a little below is the candidate goals and come off one of the big leaders who nissan photo from which he was responsible for many, many crimes at one of the functions well and the system could see that for to me at the shylock was responsible for transporting prisoners from the on the gun 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 squads, policeman 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 about the work by the group leader. and what did he tell you? didn't you just said we were to gather the jews and shoot them on to the organizers of the mass? murder had planned their crimes down to the last detail. how many people did you hear yourself shoot in movie?

if during this time and then live eve, 120 man, the few memorials mark of 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 just you to take, if you must be filled up in us and it was still louisiana forest, the german soldier stopped us in the bus back back, he shouted to him and wouldn't let us through so often to let provide delay from a distance we saw a lot of people dressed only in shirts, so the men in their underpants 5th cuz they saw on the silver was through 5th. so they had to go to this trench already so locked into a new mexican. and there was the whole military young. the german soldiers in a 4 foot and they were shooting almost up with my shooting the the, all of those to the shooting ocean. i think it

was terrible listener. we were scared when we saw the ash the color. my mother cried me to do it though as much it and love that. sure. no, we don't know a busy assist 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 2 with the b curtain. and then they dug up the bodies. the list of the people said they took, the gold teeth, fell to 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 the under like 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 offence opperation 1005 was the order issued by the highest rank leadership at the beginning of 1942 for the ballots and just get us off. he does 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 mass graves simply about all traces of most crimes. so in this case, they were to fund the mass graves that can have them hoping to fund these new, destroyed bodies. and then let me destroy the graves these on the much and what

form all 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 took a lot of, they simply named it after a phone number with index stapo. and so the next procedure, the 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 boost within the 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. few doctors that were treated as the humanized would be an objectified figures who are to be murdered after 2 weeks on board and according to protocol of property. because they were secret bearer 60 minute to use the practical reasons, the supervisor and perpetrators. stapo managed members of the security service for ordinary policeman lockwood, then insisted on keeping the objects a live longer lesson because they worked relatively well with all but 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 in the let's, let's start off these and they were shot, they're the lights of upon forwarding. and they were burned together with the bodies before that they hadn't previously retrieve. tough on these are for us to, to think of what tom says. i'm at 5

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 historian, we hired a coy, has spent a long time researching and writing about the work, criminal fair talent. global was an architect. and he worked in this profession for quite a while. here in this region. so why are some of these houses still exist by a judge? part of the existing don't know for him. like many more criminals, power, billable 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. fast as i thought, i don't tie says rick, great day, i guess i don't know. he had been a member of the say since 1931 and rose through the ranks relatively quickly. he made a career in the s as apparatus on the special commando for a which he led is responsible for around $60000.00 murdered jews. part of this 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 bobby, in the a german military photographer casually recorded the former surrounding the mass murders and the ravine near keith. only

a few survivors were able to report what happened here, a ukrainian witness named looting meal and put on each i have testified before the 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 take an eternity. i landed on the bodies and was still alive to 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 body in the 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 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 new months key weren't also there.

shostakovich is 13 symphony named after bobbin yacht was played afterwards. german president, stine, maya, recall the nazi attempts to cover up the massacre data for the others besides again, so less than the 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, the scars 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 slash host time his grandfather was from shed a team, a city and 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 is, have somebody who does everything and i actually have very few pictures of my grandfather seals. 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 a gap top mine father and wondering what the homes you could with my father and mother separated fairly early on and you can gone once and that someone's actually, my father moved out to 1965 the often the origin of dots 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 sit wherever offense during the time my grandfather was in the movies that my father must have witnessed as a small child of mine, fowls. i'd switch through his life off course to myself. that's for this assault on leave. most of these things naturally left certain impressions on me not to refuse things, still having the effect of the stuff. it's like this memorial and the vision thing

to those killed in the ghetto and even started started and been the wounds 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 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 of 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 in the leaves. you all know scott can help reduce it to was a will of a sponsibility that somebody has to tell to tell the well to be to the main name. and it also will all the padding. exactly. so that idea off the whole not system was the chill on to do the let's go had to work for the special commando, $1005.00 under valid to shylock 2 years later, after adopting the name wells, he wrote a book and spoke publicly about it. it was on the come on the policy if i thought why trump will be doing, i'm diag old like today's to clean out all these bodies

and bands and my my pie and take out the gold from gold teeth. we had different clips. and so that big gate one quote per box. so they can go to either global was caring, the cop says to, to what we laid out, what and then one of the all toward enough to works bodies 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. so you know, but and you said that the higher aspects of pi i was published. that was not that cool. that was called ash cloud net color on there of anxious to talk to ashes. and to go or add new,

valuable to web take. now the architects of death thought of everything, even the unthinkable. this was a bone mail. 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 the suitcase configure. so this is what do you do with the remains of the phones? so you mentioned, you know, these are 12 is there is a co found these machines pounds. i can do that, the village use of it to me on the left body side 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 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 puts in there for work and we need you to find all the gold teeth. they still have the resources to order the to does it really the blah has been publishing his findings on the holocaust by bullets for years. he is the face of johan in, you know, 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 people that don't call in addition to basic research, the trips to the crime scenes are coordinated here in paris. i know most people cost history or less, and you had them in the 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. nissan mazda is what s p a and the time i, 9 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 students, and that's a french are in the minority schools. and we have colleagues from eastern europe, guatemala, and the usa. and that is always been the strength of the associations. that was one investment fund and 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. then we, i think those will come on the thoughts item before the employees from all over the world meet 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 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 on 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 one's eyes. why weren't you here 102030 years ago and you show what's in

concert prices. yeah. yeah. those who lived in the immediate vicinity of a shooting site often witnessed the crime is 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 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 soldier shop. one way to remind you called 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 i am sure i 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, be sure that's how they drove the jews out for the ion. uh tragic on it, you know 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 inscription reads 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 post or 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 200200. because 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 help here. well my, my grandfather was also active here. 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 for good news news devices from if he's type 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 look deeper into certain things. but there are also moments when i am simply very moved. the i have to deal with that, i'm an old,

intervene a whether the plaque is all that marks the actual cam. so we to get shylock would have liked a more dignified memorial. so even though this time is all field trip this morning, 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 status. whoever is responsible for it's when the goose does nothing to preserve a commemorate, displace, getting hooked up to 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 looking at the jewish sites in with the 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, i see a member of the 1st part of the city, the fine so can use more than 10 years ago and study research since then i'm coming back the 2nd find here. to continue with this work that's really must be very difficult for you, but that's really admirable is that you are looking into what happens to working on definitely get understandable for other people as well and to, to keep it for the future. my kids are back to this other one

the video shylock 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. a bite to shallow made it through the countries the 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 that there were certain procedures and opportunities for obtaining financial compensation for what you had suffered during the war. so it made me think too much done then. how can you be so hard boiled and cynical adjustment to basically wipe away everything that's happened for alice lesson? if i see it is vacant,

i think now i'm doing what i can do. even give it all as much as i can and keep cutting up. 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.

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