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    Operation Reinhard

    Detailing the Gerstein Report and the facts surrounding the death camps at Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor

    By Julian Nitzsche (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
    Operation Reinhard Transit Camps: Survivors of the Camps
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    If some Jews survived their deportation to Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor, does this mean they were transit camps, not death camps? Holocaust deniers claim: A handful of Western European Jews…

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    SS staff outside the Belzec camp perimeter
    Operation Reinhard Transit Camps: They Were Death Camps
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    How do we know the Operation Reinhard camps were extermination camps and not transit camps? Holocaust deniers claim: The Operation Reinhard death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor, and Belzec were not…

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    Bend Wawerskie in Warsaw, alder forest
    Operation Reinhard Mass Cremation: Weather Delays
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    How do we know weather did not seriously hinder or halt the mass cremation process at the Operation Reinhard death camps? Holocaust deniers claim: The evidence suggests that the Nazis…

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    Shoes of Victims from Operation Reinhard Death Camps - Collected at Majdanek Concentration Camp - Lublin - Poland
    Operation Reinhard Mass Cremation: Remains of Teeth
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    Did the cremation process at the Operation Reinhard death camps also destroy the teeth of victims? Holocaust deniers claim: If some 1,400,000 Jews had been murdered in the Operation Reinhard death…

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    Jewish prisoners forced to work for a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp in Lvov, Poland. Circa Aug 1944. Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Belarusian State Archive of Documentary Film and Photography
    Operation Reinhard Mass Cremation: Bone Crushing
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    Was there enough room in the extermination areas of the Operation Reinhard death camps to crush any bones that remained after cremation? Holocaust deniers claim: There was not enough room…

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    Wood Ash
    Operation Reinhard Mass Cremation: Enough Room for Ashes
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    Did the ashes from mass cremations fit into the mass graves at the Operation Reinhard death camps? Holocaust deniers claim: At the Operation Reinhard death camp of Belzec, the amount…

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    An aerial view of the Belzec area taken by the Luftwaffe during the war, which shows the camp and the rail lines leading to it. Circa 1944. Photo Credit: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration, College Park
    Operation Reinhard Mass Cremation: Amount of Wood
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    How much wood was needed for the mass cremations at the Operation Reinhard death camps? (Part 2 of 2) Holocaust deniers claim: Some 96,000 tons of wood would have been needed…

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    By yeowatzup from Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany - Motai-juku, Saku, Nagano, Japan, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=24521385
    Operation Reinhard Mass Cremation: Not Enough Wood
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    How much wood was needed for the mass cremations at the Operation Reinhard death camps? (Part 1 of 2) Holocaust deniers claim: An astronomic amount of wood would have been…

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    By Walter Hollnagel (Eisenbahnstiftung Joachim Schmidt) [CC SA 1.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/sa/1.0/)], via Wikimedia Commons
    Operation Reinhard Mass Cremation: Cremation of Bodies
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    At the Operation Reinhard death camps, could human remains burn on their own once the mass cremation process began? Holocaust deniers claim: The remains of murdered Jews would not have…

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    By Nieznany/unknown - Stanisław Poznański (oprac./edit.), Walka. Śmierć. Pamięć 1939-1945. W dwudziestą rocznicę powstania w warszawskim getcie 1943-1963, Rada Ochrony Pomników Walki i Męczeństwa, Warszawa 1963 (strony nienumerowane/pages unnumbered), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29259635
    Operation Reinhard Mass Cremation: Steel Alloy Rails
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    How do we know the cremation grills at the Operation Reinhard death camps used standard railroad tracks? How do we know these tracks were effective as cremation grills? Holocaust deniers claim: Holocaust…

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