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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• Belzec
• Christian Wirth
• death
• camp
• gas
• chamber
• Nazi Germany
• Gottlieb Hering
• Shoah
• Jewish
• Jews
• holocaust
• David Irving
• Michael Tregenza
• Alan Heath
• Poland
• Polska
• WW2
• World War 2
• racism
• race hatred
• National Socialism
• National Socialist
• Nazi
• Final Solution
• Endlosung

[jolysable]

oui mais le negationisme a tendance a se propager....

[alanheath]

@jolysable Je ne sais pas. Je pense que comme tous les theories conspiraciste, le negationisme se propage mais etant donne que cela est base sur le racisme - qui est evident - pas tous les gen naives veulent le croire. En plus, les menteurs de l;histoire ne sont pas beaucoup mais ils sont tres vocifereux!

[jolysable]

j'ai lu que Wirth etait un des pires sadiques parmi tout ces meurtriers....

[alanheath]

@jolysable Je pense que cela est la verite.  Il attaquait meme les allemands. Avant la guerre, il travaillait pour la police a Stuttgart et des fois les gens admittaient des crimes tres rapidement quand il a commence l'enquete!

[jolysable]

@alanheath bonne idée toutes ces videos pour combattre les négationnistes!!!

[alanheath]

@jolysable Mais je ne peux pas combattre les negationistes! Cela est plutot un probleme psychiatrique - de nier la verite - de l'haine, de racisme et de revivre le nazisme. Je suis historien, pas pschologue!

Merci de votre interesse a mes films! Salutations de Varsovie, Pologne!

[maggiethefox]

I wonder what evil was planned and formulated in that house....

[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

[clintonearlwalker]

After 2 hours and 49 minute the diesel started. Up to that moment, the people shut up in those four crowded chambers were still alive, four times 750 persons in four times 45 cubic meters. Another 25 minutes elapsed. Many were already dead, that could be seen through the small window because an electric lamp inside lit up the chamber for a few moments. Finally, after 32 minutes, all were dead.Dentists hammered out gold teeth, bridges and crowns. In the midst of them stood Captain Wirth.

[jolysable]

banal maison mais le pire de l'extermination

[jolysable]

@alanheath ok