Hi,
you will find more infos on this incredible 2015/16's discovery on the next topic on which i posted an extensive report :
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru....php?t=1032056
I will only repost the first post i made in this topic, for the sake of the discussion.
I reworked the whole article of the Washington Post in a PDF file so anyone can be able to read it.
Please note that the picture of Johann Niemann on his horse is reversed, i corrected it...
All the various maps of Sobibor are incomplete and with errors, but i'm posting two of the best ones.
First the map found in the Yitzhak Arad highly recommended book "Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka" (from the 1999 reprint edition, a new "upgraded" edition was published in 2018 which imo is not that good, i have it somewhere).
Then a great 3D map originally published in the Netherlands.
About the 5 pictures i originally posted, I just modified them as they were not originally horizontally made, and i will add some new comments to them.
The first picture of the article is taken from the watchtower in the South-West corner, and is showing the Camp I for the prisoners, with the lone latrine.
You can show in the foreground what seemed to be a stock of cut tree branches, used for the camouflage of the fence around the various parts of the camp.
In the background, you can see the Camp II for the SS.
On the right of the picture, you can see the pole with the SS flag at the entrance. It is said to be from the Summer of 1943, a few months before the revolt and the closure of the camp.
The second picture shows the entrance of Camp II.
Please note that deportees rarely walked through this entrance, as a special railway track was entering the camp, in which train cars were pulled in.
You can see the camouflaged fence with tree branches, like in all the other death camps.
The third picture has the next caption on the article : "SS personnel, including commandant Franz Reichleitner and deputy commandant Johann Niemann, gather on a patio at Sobibor in 1943, drinking from glasses that historians say could have been stolen from murdered Jews."
The fourth picture is showing Niemann on his horse, in the forward camp.
Behind him is one of the barracks for the Ukrainian guards.
The fifth picture is said to show John Demjanjuk (in the foreground center) in Sobibor in Spring 1943. I'm pretty sure that the location is identified in the book "Fotos aus Sobibor", in my opinion the picture was taken inside the camp, maybe in front of Camp III fence, and the "chimney" we can see could be the one of the barracks for the Arbeitsjuden prisoners of Camp III (maybe barracks 49 on the Arad map ?).
Now we have a few pictures of the three Operation Reinhard death camps.
I take the opportunity to post the also excellent works of Alex Bay, who "reconstructed" Belzec and Treblinka camps :
https://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-...zec/index.html
https://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-...nka/index.html
See You
Vince
you will find more infos on this incredible 2015/16's discovery on the next topic on which i posted an extensive report :
http://dev.wehrmacht-awards.com/foru....php?t=1032056
I will only repost the first post i made in this topic, for the sake of the discussion.
I reworked the whole article of the Washington Post in a PDF file so anyone can be able to read it.
Please note that the picture of Johann Niemann on his horse is reversed, i corrected it...
All the various maps of Sobibor are incomplete and with errors, but i'm posting two of the best ones.
First the map found in the Yitzhak Arad highly recommended book "Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka" (from the 1999 reprint edition, a new "upgraded" edition was published in 2018 which imo is not that good, i have it somewhere).
Then a great 3D map originally published in the Netherlands.
About the 5 pictures i originally posted, I just modified them as they were not originally horizontally made, and i will add some new comments to them.
The first picture of the article is taken from the watchtower in the South-West corner, and is showing the Camp I for the prisoners, with the lone latrine.
You can show in the foreground what seemed to be a stock of cut tree branches, used for the camouflage of the fence around the various parts of the camp.
In the background, you can see the Camp II for the SS.
On the right of the picture, you can see the pole with the SS flag at the entrance. It is said to be from the Summer of 1943, a few months before the revolt and the closure of the camp.
The second picture shows the entrance of Camp II.
Please note that deportees rarely walked through this entrance, as a special railway track was entering the camp, in which train cars were pulled in.
You can see the camouflaged fence with tree branches, like in all the other death camps.
The third picture has the next caption on the article : "SS personnel, including commandant Franz Reichleitner and deputy commandant Johann Niemann, gather on a patio at Sobibor in 1943, drinking from glasses that historians say could have been stolen from murdered Jews."
The fourth picture is showing Niemann on his horse, in the forward camp.
Behind him is one of the barracks for the Ukrainian guards.
The fifth picture is said to show John Demjanjuk (in the foreground center) in Sobibor in Spring 1943. I'm pretty sure that the location is identified in the book "Fotos aus Sobibor", in my opinion the picture was taken inside the camp, maybe in front of Camp III fence, and the "chimney" we can see could be the one of the barracks for the Arbeitsjuden prisoners of Camp III (maybe barracks 49 on the Arad map ?).
Now we have a few pictures of the three Operation Reinhard death camps.
I take the opportunity to post the also excellent works of Alex Bay, who "reconstructed" Belzec and Treblinka camps :
https://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-...zec/index.html
https://phdn.org/archives/holocaust-...nka/index.html
See You
Vince
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