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the, 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 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 edge of a holocaust denial because you could say there is nothing there. the levine is the largest city in western new cream of this lively metropolis in the historical region of glitzy. a has a turbulent history. today, one of the cities 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

them off conquered the city. in 1941, they were guarded by ss units, one of whom was a really good 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 so all the 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. my goals for the common meaning also the grandfather came to the thief in june. 1941. come on to the 1st i'm that's come under session and i was involved in various activities including unfortunately operation $1005.00 ice and during which the bodies of those

executed were examined and burned. and that means that excess officer advisors shut off and 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 shut off 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 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 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 on to 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 to appear. so i'd ask how they had to strip down to their underwear 1st $10.00. i mean it just, it is. people have to thought it was good or 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 tongue kind of wood shop. he remembers being afraid when the germans returned, he stayed away. life and the they came back with trucks. they loaded corpses, a toyota and that's kind of 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 their crimes would be discovered. so you still have been 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 in the bottom. i mean, 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 executions sites in world wide and collected more than 7000 testimonies based in the san juan district. the group is called johan in a combination of the hebrew word. yeah. hod, which means together. and the latin expression in them. meaning in one says 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. 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 found, or he remains part of the groups leadership along with german lawyer and his story . and under the 8 months key 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. 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. guess you won't say me that it plays for city for, for fun. i'm always case offer by defense my speech like working on a cold case. you have certain sources,

you have archive material and you have books. and 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 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 posted on as a gps all. we only leave a location after we understand how the whole thing happened from dawn to dusk. all from is funding wong calling this to the bullshit bixler truck. they're just the resistance assumed by our troops

until the 19 ninety's them off to maintain the image of the regular army. one that fought 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 say on it to what we are still investigating. the details when it came to us, the germans codes so many people who that notice we're shooting alone. they killed over 2000000 people, usually 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 that. then on no thought the club i, you could as, as old, the today, these unit stands for terror and the murder on hitler's orders. finally, shameless setup for 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 find 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 trace because of these murders 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 of the security service. later the special commando, $1005.00 operated from here amended tickets in the car. the opt in the end. this was also the headquarters for communication with the human

rights. so while 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 water and turned and subjected to arbitrary cruelty to entertain their tormentors. a camp orchestra even had to play for hours until their fingers bled. okay, 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 kind of the 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 in their system could see that for to me at the charlotte 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. and it wasn't just the stat squads. policeman and ordinary soldiers carried out atrocities too, as described by a german corporal and a russian court martial, are so small. our group of 12 men was informed of our work by the group leader. and what did he tell you? hadn't you just said we were to gather the jews and shoot them on the axes? 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, 114 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 eye 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 just your place when you must be filled up enough and it will still louisiana forest. the german soldier stopped us in the bus back back, he shouted to me and wouldn't let us through all the a la prolog daily from a distance we saw a lot of people dressed only in shirts. so the men in their underpants so stiff cuz on that just so she refused to, they had to go to this trench already so love to didn't do much good. and there was the whole military young, the german soldiers in full boot and they were shooting almost up with vice, shooting the place to the shooting hills

bush and that it was terrible listener. we were scared when we saw the ash, my mother cried me to it, those will shed love that day. sure. no, we don't know. 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 fenced off the whole area and covered it or to with the b curtain. and then they dug up the bodies, regardless of the people said they took, the gold teeth, fell to 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 offense operation. 1005 was the order issued by the highest right. leadership at the beginning of 1942 for the ballots. and just get this 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 nice grace and throughout all traces of most crimes. so in this case, they were to find the mass graves. you can have them hoping to find these new,

destroyed bodies and then destroy the graves use 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 is what 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 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. an awesome booster fits into austin. log on. this have to be carried out by people from outside. you wouldn't, is,

clay were taken out of the camps. they were mostly jews, but they could also have been prisoners of war. they were considered objects that things feed factors that were treated as the humanized would be 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, stapo managed members of the security service for ordinary policemen lockwood, then insisted on keeping for objects. a live longer less because they worked relatively well with all. but some of these people were only murdered when their jobs ended. and 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 shot there . the lightning pop punk flooded and they were burned together with the bodies that they haven't previously retrieve top on the fly off the teeth of what types is on the top left. 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 dory, and retired. a coy has spent a long time researching and writing about the work criminal plug, the power globe, who 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 providers? how does that exist? you don't know for him. like many more criminals,

howard lobo 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 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 some of the rockland leader as part of operation. 1005 global removed evidence that led directly to his own crimes in by being a german military photographer. casually 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 the champ, 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 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 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, was held at the side a light installation projected images of those murdered onto the side 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 months 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 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, 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 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 can have someone who is having and i actually have very few pictures of my grandfather seal. so 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 time 0 time these usually latino means talk gap top mine father. and wondering what the homes you could with my father and mother separated fairly early on. you can john watson that someone's actually my father moved out to 1965. the often 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 step 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 golf course to facilitate for this assault on leave, most of 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 they just

always 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 louisiana of scott. can it help reduce it to was a will of a sponsibility that somebody has to tell to tell to a well beats the remaining and also will off the padding. exactly . so it's that idea of the whole not system was the chill on to do the, let's go had to work for the special command, a $1005.00 under valid 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 like chopped well be don't and died all to get a 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 quote, so i called for was tearing the cop says to so what we laid off and what and bad them 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 cap. i've seen all but and the sad victims higher. after the fire was finished, that was not that cold. that was called ash cloud net. cut it all noon 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. who gets confidence. so this is what do you do with the remains of the phones? so imagine, you know, these are 12 is other found, these machines, phones i can review the village, the civic e mail, plus bodies 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 replaced the grids and set them up in the extermination. come as young and fuzzy on the jews were dead and burned on ashes,

but puts in there for work and really need you to find all the gold teeth. they still have the resources to a, to, to the young 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 you have to get to know that kind of sites. i think jeff was getting ready to go, in addition to basic research on the trips to the crime scenes, are coordinated here in paris. i know for once difficult history or would i send to them and it sort of 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's next, i might as, as well that's the timeline 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 the 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 on the spectrum. and because we quickly realize that it can't always just be about one nation, a snitch them on line is uh huh. you need connections to the countries in which we work. that's how to achieve success in our life and those who come on the thoughts item of employees from all over the world meet 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 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, and many of these places are not even marked online 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 a, why are you interested? 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 and you 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 to remind you, cool. 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, be sure that's how they drove the jews out for the ion. uh, 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 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. psyched, 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 instructor for 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 healing, like 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 fluid 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, 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 and hope to

gain 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, keeping, putting things. 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 to the victims and to make sure that the the grounds in places

will be preserved. my grandfather has been one of the traders. he was 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 the 2nd time here to continue with this work. that's a really must be very difficult for you. but that's really admirable that you are looking into what happens to working on definitely gonna 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 ever post 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 cousin have 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 in just 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,

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