Operation Reinhard
1942–1943 · Event
In twenty months, the three camps built for the purpose — Bełżec, Sobibór and Treblinka — murder some 1.7 million Jews of occupied Poland, most within hours of arrival. The operation ends with the camps dismantled, plowed under and planted over: the intention was that no one would ever know.
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