Operation Reinhard railway HQ in Lublin
SEE MY SITE ON FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/historysite Most of the 1,526,000 victims of Operation Reinhard were taken to their deaths by train. The aim of the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942 was to use different German state agencies to coordinate the deportation of Jews to extermination camps. One of those agencies was the Transport Ministry which operated the rail network. Different offices in railway stations received their orders but the head office as far as the deportations in Poland were concerned was in Lublin. Today that office is a job centre which you would certainly miss as no plaque is outside today. In this film you can see it. German railroad officials used both freight and passenger cars for the deportations. Despite the administration knowing that people were being transported and how many people there were (after all it had been paid), no food or water was given for the journey. In some cases, transports could take two weeks. Victims suffered from the temperature - usually heat due to the stifling overcrowding. Some freight cars had a bucket for excrement, others did not. The railway authority must have realised this even if they did not know that the people were going to be murdered on arrival.
SEE MY SITE ON FACEBOOK : https://www.facebook.com/historysite Most of the 1,526,000 victims of Operation Reinhard were taken to their deaths by train. The aim of the Wannsee Conference on 20 January 1942 was to use different German state agencies to coordinate the deportation of Jews to extermination camps. One of those agencies was the Transport Ministry which operated the rail network. Different offices in railway stations received their orders but the head office as far as the deportations in Poland were concerned was in Lublin. Today that office is a job centre which you would certainly miss as no plaque is outside today. In this film you can see it. German railroad officials used both freight and passenger cars for the deportations. Despite the administration knowing that people were being transported and how many people there were (after all it had been paid), no food or water was given for the journey. In some cases, transports could take two weeks. Victims suffered from the temperature - usually heat due to the stifling overcrowding. Some freight cars had a bucket for excrement, others did not. The railway authority must have realised this even if they did not know that the people were going to be murdered on arrival.