The Belzec Death Camp: The Acceleration of Operation Reinhard

The Nazi Death Camp at Belzec and the Summer 1942 Acceleration of Operation Reinhard. Part 5 of the Belzec Documentary. Part of the 'Forgotten Nazi Death Camps' Series. Link to the Full Playlist is here:    • Forgotten Nazi Death Camps - Belzec   Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 0:25 Prelude to the Summer 1942 "Killing Frenzy" 1:09 Tarnow Ghetto Deportations and Resistance 6:37 Wirth's Security Reforms Following the Tarnow Rebels 8:09 Wirth's Reforms to Belzec's Inmate Structure 10:48 Arrivals into Belzec During the "Killing Frenzy" Period and Rudolf Gockel 15:26 Disembarkation Process at Belzec in Summer 1942 17:09 Rudolf Reder's Recollection of his arrival in Belzec on August 17th 1942 19:09 Rudolf Reder's Recollection of Irmann's "Welcome Speech" and the SS Promise. 20:31 On Fritz Irmann 23:38 Belzec's Phase 2 Lazarett 24:33 Recruitment of T4 Staff for Aktion Reinhard's Summer 1942 Acceleration 26:33 On Christian Wirth 27:57 Christian Wirth Punishes Kurt Franz 31:51 Hans Girtzig Refuses to Work in Belzec Bibliography: Primary Sources: “Armia Krajowa on Resistance in Belzec: June 13th 1942” in The Belzec Death Camp: Histories, Biographies, Remembrance, 187. Ibidem. “Extraordinary Report from the Jew-Extermination Camp at Belzec-Annex, July 10th 1942” in The Belzec Death Camp: Histories, Biographies, Remembrance, 187. Ibidem. “Karl Schluch on Belzec’s New Gas Chambers” in Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka: The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, 74. Indiana University Press. Reder, R. (1946). ‘Belzec’ in Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry Volume 13: Focusing on the Holocaust and Its Aftermath. Edited by Antony Polonsky, 268-289. Liverpool University Press. “Testimony of Edward Łuczyński: October 15th 1945” in Obóz zagłady w Bełżcu: W Relacjach Ocalonych I Zeznaniach Polskich Świadków, 275-281. Prószyński Media. “Testimony of Rudolf Reder Before the Main Commission for the Investigation of Nazi Crimes in Poland: December 29th 1945” in The Belzec Death Camp: Histories, Biographies, Remembrance, 44. Ibidem. Secondary Readings: Arad, Y. (2018). ‘Belzec: March 17 to June 1942’ in Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka. The Operation Reinhard Death Camps, 68-75. Indiana University Press. O’Neil, R. (2008). ‘Interim Phase’ in Belzec: Stepping Stone to Genocide, 144-149. JewishgGenInc. Kuwałek, R. (2013). Belzec : Le Premier Centre De Mise à Mort, 83-98. Calmann-Levy. Tregenza, M. (1989). ‘Belzec Death Camp’ in The Nazi Holocaust: Volume 2, 1097-1100. Edited by Michael Robert Marrus. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Saur. Webb, C. (2016). The Belzec Death Camp: Histories, Biographies, Remembrance, 43-189. Ibidem. #ww2 #ww2history #warcrime #belzec #operationreinhard #documentary #concentrationcamps #gaschamber #history #nazi #ss