[colorado tanker]

At the end of 1942 the decision was made to close Belzec because they had killed most of the Jews in the region and felt Auschwitz could handle the rest. The camp was dismantled, replanted and made to look like farmland. The last inmates were shipped to Treblinka to be gassed.

Later, as the Russian 1943 offensive gained steam, frantic efforts were made to dig up corpses and incinerate or crush the bones to eradicate evidence of the crimes. But they could never erase the evidence of crimes on such a massive scale.

[quadrant]

I don't disagree with your post. My point is that far more people survived Auschwitz than survived Belzec, Treblinka, or Soibibor combined. This isn't to mitigate the hell that was Auschwitz but to recognize the true nature of the three death camps.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ct. Himmler phoned Hitler to tell him about the early “successes” of the Holocaust, and Hitler scolded him over it, saying he wasn’t to speak of it over the phone, because the line might be tapped. That’s so bizarre.