German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator, convicted war criminal (1894–1951)
Paul Blobel
Born
(1894-08-13)13 August 1894
Potsdam, Prussia, German Empire
Died
7 June 1951(1951-06-07) (aged 56)
Landsberg Prison, Landsberg am Lech, West Germany
Cause of death
Execution by hanging
Known for
Bila Tserkva massacre
Babi Yar massacre
Sonderaktion 1005
Criminal status
Executed
Motive
Nazism
Conviction(s)
Crimes against humanity War crimes Membership in a criminal organization
Trial
Einsatzgruppen Trial
Criminal penalty
Death
Details
Victims
60,000+
Span of crimes
June 1941 – 1944
Country
Poland, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia
SS career
Allegiance
Nazi Germany
Service/branch
Schutzstaffel
Rank
SS-Standartenführer
Unit
Einsatzgruppe C
Commands held
Sonderkommando 4a Sonderaktion 1005
Paul Blobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951) was a German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust. He organised the Babi Yar massacre, the largest massacre of the Second World War at Babi Yar ravine in September 1941, pioneered the use of the gas van, and, following re-assignment, developed the gas chambers for the extermination camps. From late 1942 onwards, he led Sonderaktion 1005, wherein millions of bodies were exhumed at sites across Eastern Europe in an effort to erase all evidence of the Holocaust and specifically of Operation Reinhard. After the war, Blobel was tried at the Einsatzgruppen Trial and sentenced to death. He was executed in 1951.
PaulBlobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951) was a German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust...
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retaliation for the explosions. Also present were SS-Standartenführer PaulBlobel, commander of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C, and his superior...
well as those passed against the leaders of the Mobile Killing Units, PaulBlobel, Werner Braune, Erich Naumann, and Otto Ohrlendorf. . . . In the early...
those who already knew the details, such as Ohlendorf, Arthur Nebe, and PaulBlobel. Einsatzgruppe D was the smallest of the task forces, but was supplemented...
sent to the U.S. Army's prison at Landsberg included: Gottlob Berger PaulBlobel Karl Brandt Sepp Dietrich Hellmuth Felmy Otto Hofmann Karl-Adolf Hollidt...
IG Farben. New York City: Free Press. ISBN 978-0-02-904630-2. Weindling, Paul; von Villiez, Anna; Loewenau, Aleksandra; Farron, Nichola (2016). "The victims...
on the border between Slovenia and Austria) under SS-Standartenführer PaulBlobel, Einsatzgruppe Jugoslawien (Yugoslavia) Einsatzkommando Luxemburg (Luxembourg)...
the Firefox and its secrets. He went on to play SS-Standartenführer PaulBlobel in the Second World War drama War and Remembrance. Colley has directed...
"actions" against Jews. Rasch, along with General Kurt Eberhard and PaulBlobel, organised the Babi Yar massacre, which saw the murder of over 33,000...
of the Reich Security Main Office, placed high-ranking SS functionary PaulBlobel in charge of the Aktion 1005, but its start was delayed after Heydrich...
1941) Sonderkommandos 4a and 4b (Sonderkommando 4 a was commanded by PaulBlobel) Einsatzkommandos 5 and 6. Attached to Army Group South Einsatzgruppe...
November 1941, the unit had executed 59,018 people. SS-Standartenführer PaulBlobel (June 1941–13 January 1942) SS-Obersturmbannführer Erwin Weinmann (13...
Wehrmacht chaplains tried to prevent an Einsatzgruppen massacre, but PaulBlobel's verbal order was direct and decisive. On 22 June 1941, Axis armies invaded...
six other Nazi war criminals including Otto Ohlendorf, Erich Naumann, PaulBlobel and Oswald Pohl. As Braune was escorted down the hallway to the gallows...
Gerhard Bast Rudolf Batz Ernst Biberstein Wolfgang Birkner Helmut Bischoff PaulBlobel Walter Blume Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock Otto Bradfisch Werner Braune Karl...
3 million Jews. Heydrich ensured the safety of certain athletes, such as Paul Sommer, a Jewish German champion fencer he knew from his pre-SS days, and...
Aggression – Washington, U.S Govt. Print. Office, 1946, Vol III, p. 418 Bartrop, Paul R; Dickerman, Michael, eds. (2017). "Gas Vans". The Holocaust: An Encyclopedia...
Gerhard Bast Rudolf Batz Ernst Biberstein Wolfgang Birkner Helmut Bischoff PaulBlobel Walter Blume Friedrich-Wilhelm Bock Otto Bradfisch Werner Braune Karl...
well as those passed against the leaders of the Mobile Killing Units, PaulBlobel, Werner Braune, Erich Neumann, and Otto Ohrlendorf. . . . In the early...
SS-Brigadeführer Professor Dr. Franz Six. Later it was headed by SS-Obersturmbannführer Paul Dittel. It was responsible for the creation of anti-semitic, anti-masonic...
of The Winds of War and is forced to join Kommando 1005, SS officer PaulBlobel's Jewish contingent that travels around Eastern Europe exhuming the bodies...
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