This revised and updated version of Chris Webb's comprehensive 2016 book covers the development
and history of the first death camp in Poland within the Aktion Reinhardt mass murder program.
Webb outlines the construction of the death camp in Poland by the National Socialists and
provides a comprehensive account of who built the death camp and how the mass murder was
perfected by Christian Wirth the first Commandant who was well versed in the mass murder by
gas from his days in the T4 Organization. The history of the death camp is retold with
eyewitness testimony of some of the Jewish survivors the Poles who helped build the death camp
and former SS members of the Garrison and German visitors to the camp. The book includes an
updated and revised Jewish Roll of Remembrance with sources provided to verify each entry.
This includes the handful of survivors as well as a comprehensive record of the victims Polish
and Czech Jews and those deported from the Reich to Belzec.The book also provides a detailed
record of the leading figures of Aktion Reinhardt including Odilo Globocnik Christian Wirth
and Hermann Hofle and members of the SS Garrison who served in Belzec. The biographies record
their histories what they did at Belzec and their fates where known.Also covered are the
post-war testimonies trials and excavations. A number of historic and contemporary
photographs some of which have never been published before and documents and drawings enhance
this edition.
