Paul Blobel ( German: Paul Blobel ; August 13, 1894 , Potsdam , German Empire - June 7, 1951 , Landsberg Prison ) - German officer, SS Standartenfuhrer , commander of the Sonderkommando 4a, which was part of the Einsatz Group C , which carried out the massacres in Babi Yar , the leader of the Sonderkommando 1005 . After the war, he appeared before the American military tribunal in Nuremberg , where he was sentenced to death and later hanged.
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Biography
Born in a Protestant family. He grew up in Remscheid , where he attended school and studied as a bricklayer and carpenter. From 1912 to 1913 he studied architecture and worked as a carpenter until the outbreak of World War I. In World War I he served in the engineering forces. November 26, 1917 received the rank of vice sergeant major. In November 1918 he was demobilized. Until 1919 he was unemployed and lived Remscheid. Then Blobel continued his studies as an architect. In August 1920 he received a diploma.
In 1921 - 1924 worked at various enterprises. In 1924 - 1929 had its own architectural bureau in Solingen . In 1929, with the onset of the economic crisis, it lost orders. From 1930 to 1933 he was registered as unemployed in Solingen. December 1, 1931 joined the NSDAP (ticket 844662), and in January 1932 in the SS (ticket 29100).
From 1933 to the spring of 1935, Blobel served in the city government of Solingen. In June 1935, he entered the SD and quickly made a career, becoming the head of the SD sector in Düsseldorf . In 1938, he coordinated the confiscation of the property of the destroyed synagogues in Solingen , Wuppertal and Remscheid .
In June 1941, with the outbreak of war against the Soviet Union, SS Standartenfuhrer Blobel was appointed head of the Sonderkommando 4a of the Einsatzgruppe C in the area of operations of the South Group of Forces. Until the beginning of January 1942, a team led by Blobel shot about 60,000 people in Ukraine , mostly Jews. Of these, 30,000 were killed in Babi Yar near Kiev on September 29-30 , 1941 .
In January 1942, Blobel was removed from office and recalled to Berlin for drunkenness and misconduct. There he was placed at the disposal of the head of the Gestapo, but was actually without work [1] .
In June 1942, Blobel was tasked with conducting an exhumation and burning of the bodies of murdered Jews in Poland and the occupied territory of the USSR ( Sonderaktion 1005 ).
In October 1944 he led the Einsatzgruppe Iltis, which conducted anti-partisan actions in Carinthia .
In 1948, he was sentenced to death by an American military court in the trial of the Einsatzgruppen in Nuremberg and hanged on June 7, 1951, along with other war criminals - Otto Olendorf , Erich Naumann , Oswald Paul and Werner Brown .
Rewards
- Iron Cross 1st and 2nd grade.
Notes
Literature
- Anna Goldberg . Klaas's ashes are beating in my heart ... // Russian Bazaar. - 2002. - No. 27 (323). - S. 20, 59.
- Anna Goldberg . Klaas's ashes are beating in my heart ... // Russian Bazaar. - 2002. - No. 28 (324). - S. 52.
- A.I. Kruglov . The tragedy of Babi Yar in German documents. - Dnepropetrovsk: Center "Tkuma"; PE "Lira LTD", 2011. - P. 118.
- In English
- Hilary Earl. The Nuremberg SS-Einsatzgruppen Trial, 1945–1958: Atrocity, Law, and History. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. - P. 163–166. - ISBN 978-0-521-45608-1 .
- Yitzhak Arad. The Holocaust in the Soviet Union. - Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009 .-- ISBN 978-0-8032-2059-1 .
- In German
- Ernst Klee. Das Personenlexikon zum Dritten Reich . - 2. Auflage. - Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2007 .-- ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 .
- Jens Hoffmann. "Das kann man nicht erzählen." "Aktion 1005" - Wie die Nazis die Spuren ihrer Massenmorde in Osteuropa beseitigten. - Hamburg: KVV Konkret, 2008 .-- ISBN 978-3-930786-53-4 .