Operation Reinhard

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Nazi extermination operation component of the Holocaust genocidal operation

Operation Reinhard was the Nazi German plan during World War II to systematically murder the Jews of occupied Poland, primarily through the extermination camps of Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.

Aliases (1)

Aktion Reinhardt ×3

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Nazi extermination operation → component of the Holocaust → genocidal operation →
administrativeCenter	Lublin →
alsoKnownAs	Aktion Reinhardt → Einsatz Reinhardt →
coordinatedBy	Christian Wirth → Odilo Globocnik →
country	Nazi Germany →
economicAspect	systematic plunder of Jewish property →
endedBy	Soviet military advances in 1943 →
endTime	1943 →
estimatedNumberOfVictims	approximately 1.7 million Jews →
evidenceDocumentedIn	Nuremberg Trials records →
followedBy	Aktion Erntefest →
hasPart	Belzec extermination camp → Sobibor extermination camp → Treblinka extermination camp →
historicalSignificance	largest single murder operation of the Holocaust in occupied Poland →
implementedIn	General Government (Nazi-occupied Poland) →
involvedOrganization	German Order Police → SS-Totenkopfverbände → Trawniki men →
location	occupied Poland →
mainGoal	murder of Jews in the General Government →
method	confiscation of victims’ property → deportation by train to extermination camps →
namedAfter	Reinhard Heydrich →
partOf	Final Solution to the Jewish Question → Holocaust →
perpetrator	German police → SS →
plannedBy	Nazi leadership →
precededBy	mass shootings in the Soviet Union by Einsatzgruppen →
relatedEvent	Wannsee Conference →
result	near destruction of Jewish communities in the General Government →
startTime	1941 →
supervisedBy	Reich Main Security Office →
timePeriod	World War II →
typeOfCrime	crime against humanity → genocide →
uses	gas chambers → mass shootings →
victim	Jews deported from Western Europe → Polish Jews → Roma →

Referenced by (17)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Christian Wirth → Franz Stangl → Heinrich Gley → Irmfried Eberl → Kurt Franz → Lorenz Hackenholt ("Aktion Reinhardt") →	participatedIn
District of Lublin → General Government → Nazi war crimes →	notableEvent
Belzec → Sobibor →	partOf
Heinrich Gley ("Aktion Reinhardt") →	affiliation
Operation Reinhard ("Aktion Reinhardt") →	alsoKnownAs
Order Police battalions →	involvedIn
Lublin Ghetto →	relatedTo
Protection Squadron →	significantEvent
Bełżec memorial and museum →	theme