Aktion 1005

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Aktion 1005 was a secret Nazi operation during World War II aimed at exhuming and destroying the mass graves of Holocaust victims to conceal evidence of genocide.

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Aktion 1005 canonical 1
Sonderaktion 1005 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Nazi operation
World War II operation
cover-up operation
alsoKnownAs Enterdungsaktion
Aktion 1005
surface form: Sonderaktion 1005
appliesTo mass graves near concentration camps
mass graves near extermination camps
mass graves of Einsatzgruppen victims
mass graves of Holocaust victims
appointedBy HeinrichHimmler
surface form: Heinrich Himmler
characteristic high level of secrecy
murder of laborers after completion of work
systematic destruction of forensic evidence
conflict World War II
country Nazi Germany
endTime 1944
hasGoal concealment of the Holocaust
cremation of exhumed bodies
destruction of evidence of mass murder
exhumation of mass graves
obliteration of mass grave sites
headOf Paul Blobel
legalAftermath addressed in post-war war crimes trials
evidence in other Nuremberg trials
evidence in the Einsatzgruppen Trial
location German-occupied Eastern Europe
German-occupied Poland
German occupation of parts of the Soviet Union
surface form: German-occupied Soviet Union

Axis-occupied Yugoslavia
surface form: German-occupied Yugoslavia

German-occupied territories
method camouflage of former grave sites
crushing of bones after cremation
exhumation of corpses
open-air cremation on pyres
scattering of ashes and bone fragments
use of gasoline and other fuels for burning bodies
notableSite Babi Yar
Belzec
surface form: Bełżec extermination camp

Chelmo extermination camp
surface form: Chełmno extermination camp

Sobibor
surface form: Sobibór extermination camp

Treblinka
surface form: Treblinka extermination camp

sites of Einsatzgruppen massacres in the Soviet Union
organizer Paul Blobel
partOf Holocaust
Nazi crimes against humanity
perpetrator Reich Main Security Office
surface form: RSHA

Reich Main Security Office
SS
Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: Schutzstaffel
startTime 1942
usedLabor Jewish forced laborers
Sonderkommando prisoners
prisoners from concentration camps
victim Jews
Polish civilians
Roma
Soviet prisoners of war
other victims of Nazi mass shootings

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Paul Blobel operationLed Aktion 1005
Aktion 1005 alsoKnownAs Aktion 1005
this entity surface form: Sonderaktion 1005