Belzec - the house of Christian Wirth

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Christian Wirth was the first commandant of the Belzec death camp and in the summer of 1942 became the overseer of the Aktion Reinhard operations which led to the deaths of at least 1.4m people in the death camps of Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor.
Despite being one of the greatest mass murderers in history, very littls is known about him. He had previously served in the CID in Stuttgart and was noted for results - probably through the use of beatings to get confessions.
Unlike most of the other criminals of the holocaust, Wirth was not a young man. He was born in 1885. Despite being in his mid fifties he possessed a great deal of physical strength which turned to violence probably due to mental problems caused by his asthma.
This film shows the house where he lived in Belzec during his time as commandant there before moving to a flat in Lublin airport when he was replaced by his deputy Gottlieb Hering as commandant.
The house became vacant following the death of the occupier in December 2006.

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[SherwoodArrow]

A book on Schindler explains how an argument took place between Amon Goeth, Commandant of Plazow camp and Wirth, about Wirth not being sent his share of the loot taken from Jews, and suggesting Goeth was keeping it or taking too large a share. Sometime later Goeth was arrested by the SS, who were carrying out an enquiry into the same complaint on behalf of Berlin. Alan on this video is that David Irving who a UK Judge denounced as a rogue and scoundrel.

[Alan Heath]

Yes, that is David Irving.

[Charlie Fortune]

David Irving?? Wow.

Isn't he a rather well know and infamous Auswitz gas chamber denier? What was his take on Ops Rienhart/hard and T4? Belzec had very recent excavations, memorial work and study. With this research and new info from Red October Archives, is he signing a new tune or what?

[Alan Heath]

Yes, that is the same person! He certainly is not denying this, he is even exaggerating the number of people killed here - although I think for the reason that if they were not killed at Auschwitz then there were killed here!

[Charlie Fortune]

Very interesting! I enjoyed Hitlers War. A very well written work.

Too bad he's gone off the proverbial historical rails on many other issues. It would be a great opportunity to discuss and understand this gentleman however. Perhaps I'll see you in March Alan. Thinking of doing a quick tour of Poland and the Czech Republic. Cheers.

[Alan Heath]

I am expecting to be in Poland in the second half of March!

[ozna12]

Dear trespasser, about books I suggest:

Gerald Reitlinger: Die Endlösung

Jean Francois Steiner: Treblinka Richard Rashke: Escape from Sobibor

Rudolf Reder: Belzec

Ferruccio Fölkel: Risiera San Sabba

Trials of War Criminals before the Nürnberg Military tribunals

Tone Ferenc: Satan, his work and his death.

Voruntersuchung gegen Franz Stangl Voruntersuchung gegen Kurt Franz

And works of Claude Lanzmann, perhaps Yitzak Arad, maybe mr. Heath has more info about books

[LUCA SANNA]

Hello Alan.

your videos about the Holocaust, shooting on location, are fantastic.

my most sincere congratulations for your contribution to the history, and to all the scholars of the Holocaust. You're great! your videos are exceptional documents, I hope that everyone will understand this.

Luca Sanna.

[SherwoodArrow]

QUOTE:

Gluecks ordered that the inmates, occupied in the crematory as corpse handlers were to be relieved at least every three weeks and to be killed through shots in the neck, because they know too much. Furthermore it was ordered that all physicians and the nursing personnel was to be sent to an alleged labour camp in order to be killed.

Paste any PART of the above in your Google Search box to read what a German Camp Officer said. 2 pages of information straight from a Commandants mouth.

[krakowiakow24]

ois Steiner: Treblinka-this is fukin falsh.

r,reder-belec-this is a good books.

[MoSkont1]

Why to waste your time to correspond in a sterile way with people as "maguire289" who have for arguments only specious criticisms, either on your equipment, or on your supposed incapacitated to film? Their partial vision of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict makes that any Historic research on Shoah, compromises you immediately by tidying up you by an absurd deduction at the most obtuse Zionists. Don't give up on Globocnick, Wirth, Brack, Lange, Op.R.,T4 and SB14f13, the K-K Gekrat trucks, etc !