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If I say the word holocaust what brings to mind
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I mentioned something like this
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Concentration camp
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Barbed wire
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Train loads of victim
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Gas Chambers and crematoria
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Places like a house fits
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And the system of mass murder
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I think most of us assume that this was always the predetermined destination
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Designed from the outset and some great master plan of extermination
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It wasn't
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It wasn't a master plan for this it's Origins were chaotic and spont
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Genius
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An improvised Mass executions
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It's believed the more than a million Jews were murdered
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In thousands of random killings that erupted all across Eastern Europe
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In the Holocaust of bullets
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Largely lost
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Forgotten for more than 80 years this first chapter of the greatest crime in
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Is now being fully revealed for the first time
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Thanks to newly discovered aerial photographs
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An advances in forensic detection
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Finding lost victims
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Uncovering the true scale of The Killing
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He began in Earnest in the midst of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941
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Atrocities grew in scale and savagery
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Until just 6 months later
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Bullets gave way to gas
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In the first death camps
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Of the final solution
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My name is James Belgian I'm a historian and Holocaust
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Specialist at the Imperial War Museum and this film tells a story that has never been fully
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Of the crucial 6 months that ignited the Holocaust
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If you going to search for the events that started the Holocaust
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Cambridge University Library might seem a strange place to look
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But a researcher here
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Thinks he can find that start
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Using second world war aerial archives
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How are you good to see
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Let me show you what we've been putting together
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This is
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Map of the German reconnaissance and our survey photography
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Taken during the second World War
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I have photographs taken by the Germans primarily over Central and Eastern Europe
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But if we're looking for the ramshackle beginnings of the Holocaust as it were the sort of ad
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The start of it
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One of the things
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They have a photographing evidence of Aaron crimes
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And there's a good example of this
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Possibly
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The German border here
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The Jewish inhabitants it was about 20% 30% Jewish before the war
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They would have
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In the houses
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Of the two Jewish streets here
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I'm listening
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And on the 22nd of
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June 1941 of course the Germans pushed East and within
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Literally 24 hours of coming over the
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The board of the Germans are destroyed
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You can see
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How are you here was burned
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Turn that
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You're so striking to me that these forces come through here from this direction and I mean literally what within a few 100 m of the German
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What do they come through and they
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This this
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Incident happens here so quickly
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So soon so close
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Well look at
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If you look
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It's not part of the Agricultural landscape is not a path
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I think this is a trench
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We have certain amount of
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To sort of indicate that this is precisely where
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The Jewish men have been marched
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Up up the street in which they had lived
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I'm with then shot to death
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Unbur
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In that Trench
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So I've been up
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I've been circling this question how do we get to the huge
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Boss catastrophic Act of mass violence mass murder
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And it's possible
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Likely
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Is where it began
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Sorry
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If Chris has found a possible start point for the holoca
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Why is it in the Soviet Union
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As late as 1941
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Head
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Always envisage the world free of his two great enemies Jews
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Communists
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By 19
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40 he conquered half of Europe
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And have millions of Jews rounded up and putting ghettos
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His intention had always been to get rid of them entirely
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But there was no concrete plan for how to do it
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Then June 1941
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He sets out to destroy his other great enemy Bolshevik communism
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Hitler had always branded communism a Jew
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Conspiracy so his invasion of the Soviet Union offered the perfect opportunity
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To Target both enemies at once
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Dodge day on the border of Soviet Lithuania and Nazi Germany was right on the front
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I'm lying of that invasion
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The Vermont today sweat into this whole area
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I will charge with this instruction from Hitler and the commanders of the army that this was a war of annihilation they were coming
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Going through this space to decimate it the order
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What's for communism to be eradicated
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No specific order was given to kill Jews
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Yeah there was a monument here in God's day
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Exactly where Chris's photos showed a trench
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It's on the 24th of June
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2 days off to the gym invasion of the Soviet Union
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Come on they're in this area
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My name is Burma
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Instructed the 200g should be rounded up
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They should be bought here
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They should be
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Tend to think of military orders within the German Army at this period
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Is all coming from the top
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The people at the top telling the people on the ground what to do that's not what happens here
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Really important because actually what happens is people on the ground like Burma take their own in
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Hitler was always wanted to remove juice from Europe and here these men take the initiative
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Way possible
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To murder and it starts a process of mass murder
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The spreads by Wildfire across this whole territory and the numbers grow and they grow
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And they grow
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Hitler's head of security was SS Chief Heinrich Himmler Himmler
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Created special killing squads called inserts Groupon to follow in the wake of the army and eradicate Hitler's polit
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Enemies
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Capitalizing on Burma's initiative
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His deputy hydr
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Issued an instruction that any Jew working for the communist state
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Must be shot
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For Ein sets gripping teams were ready to carry out that order
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Across all newly conquered Soviet territory
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I'm following onto scorpion a from God's day
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Into Latvia
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And a town called Leah Pia
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Here there was another fierce battle for
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Told the city
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Dinosaurs
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In the aftermath of the battle
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Yes assignments Groupon went in search of Hitler's enemies
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And we can see what they did with them
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In a unique piece of film shot by a German serviceman
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In the opening of this film here we see a
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Looks to be freshly dug
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Then the answer is gripping soldiers Milling around waiting
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And is this really hideous since fantasipation and then
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We see why we see a truck arrive
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And people being loaded off the back of it
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We can see
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Play the Jews we know the Jews because they're wearing patches on their front and their back
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The Germans but around them
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We see spectators
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Around here we see members of the Navy here military here
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Amongst them just people
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They're there in huge numbers
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They're smoking they're talking the clamoring to get a closer look to see what's about to happen
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Group of the group come and the people stay and they watch it
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Hey we can see this man just looking into the camera
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Suggest that he can see that he's being filmed as this is happening he knows that this has been captured in the people we watch
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When he's gone
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It's horrible
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It's it's almost as if shooting Jesus become spectator sport
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A few weeks after the invasion
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So the Vermont to start to push further into Soviet territory the answer coming behind them and they're finding more
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Jewish communities to Target
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And they're keeping the running title of it as they go they want to be able to report those figures
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Impetus this this
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Constantly
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Find more juice to kill let me see that recorded here
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Of August 41
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And now they include you didn't and you didn't kinda
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Women
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Children
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Is only taking a few weeks from those first Murders At guys died for this
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To accelerate here
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It says
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614 people
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The Nazis wanted to do more than just kill their victims
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They wanted to erase them from memory
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The graves of many tens of thousands have never been found
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And that matters to Dr Harry Joel
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So much so
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He's devoted his career to finding them you can't just hide the buttons
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The bodies will be found
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I'm trying to as a physical geographer Jim morphologist and people such as myself and academ
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Thanks and others need to say
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Let's take our tools that we use for other
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Research projects
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And let's apply them to the Holocaust
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We need to put closer to this
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It does line up brill
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For smoking building
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But if I smoke stack
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Would be just beyond that modern building on the other side of it
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So we can't see the pit from here but if we back up
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Harry what's with fellow us academic
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Dr Phil read
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There's the
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And every summer for the last 7 years
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They've been bringing teams of students to Eastern Europe in search of Holocaust victims
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We have a different perspective on it now but
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If we look up
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Birth to students are they're standing where the crowd was stand
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And
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Today
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They're looking for the men in the film
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But then as they run
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Look there's Lighthouse you can see the lighthouse right there
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That's it
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The film gives them a landmarks they can locate on historic air photos of the site
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Allowing them to triangulate where the men were shot
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And where they should start their search
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But here's that road where they would have taken people
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And then we see all those
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Cars parked
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And where they're actually dropped off
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So I think that's a good spot for in the video where they're getting out of the trucks
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There's actually a structure right there
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And cuz you can see the people up on this side and people up on this side
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And then they would run to the pit over here
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So the
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To me is right out here in front of
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At least that's the place to start
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Today at law forbids any physical disturbance of the dead so they're digging
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With radio waves ground penetrating radar gives them the ability to image
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Any large feature buried in the Earth
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Like a mass grave after a few hours
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They find what appears to be a buried Trench
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But it's facing the wrong way to be the one in the film
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Literally in that direction
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Right so it's almost 90° off of we expecting looking at the photos and taking a look at it here
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Maybe means that you're multiple trenches and you know the video is just one point in time
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Where that particular trench is being used
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So there could be trenches everywhere
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Off the multiple passes of the GPR
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Another trench appears beneath the tarmac
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And this one
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Lines up exactly with the film
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As we take a look at this trench it's pretty impressive you know this is 38 M long
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Get all this probably the first or second time I've ever seen something like this
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I mean it stands out very clearly
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I mean from all the time spent watching the video
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It fits very well with what we imagine the angle would be the trench coming in towards the Fortress
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And you know they were basically brought into the trench
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And fell against this side when they were shot
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All the pieces of the puzzle
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Are here yeah
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But at the same time there's more work to do
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Oh certainly
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The men in the film have finally been found
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But it's clear there were more people shot buried here than anyone ever realized
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I'm further along the same stretch of coast
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A few months after Leah pies men
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Thousands of women and children were shot and buried in the sands
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No one knows exactly how many
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Where that bodies lie
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Is there any since the fall of the Soviet Union the mass Graves like these
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Lost for over 80 years of being forensically investigated for the first time
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The Pioneers like Harry and Phil are just scratching the surface of a Monumental task
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In Latvia there are more than
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Expected Holocaust sites
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Most of yet to be fully explored
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The same is true and neighboring Lithuania with more than 200 suspected sites
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What seems extraordinary
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Is it that was a single insect scrub a team a fewer than a thousand men
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To account for an estimated quarter of a million deaths across both countries
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There's only one way that was possible and it's one of the most dist
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Disturbing aspects of this entire story
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Widespre
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Local complicity
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And there's evidence of that happening here
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In the Lithuanian town of elitist so we're just driving into
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To the town now from exactly the same direction that the Germans came in
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On the 22nd of June 1941 so on the very start to The Invasion this is where
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They were coming from and behind them with these answers grouper Soldiers with this task of
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Looking for the town's Jews
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They found them in the town and the surrounding villages
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And according to Nazi records
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Nearly two and a half thousand Jews were rounded up
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And bought to be murdered in the nearby Forest
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The town and the very same road driven on three the center of elitist becomes
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I see Harris
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It's becoming a disorder trying and now we're in forest
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Oh I find really really chilling and really un
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Is the fact that it's walking distance from the middle of the town
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But who bought the thousands of Jews here
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And who killed them
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Because the SS
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Have fewer than a dozen men stationed in this area
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I'm here to meet the leader of Lithuania surviving Jewish community
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Find a quick lanski believes her grandmother was killed in this Forest
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And she may have discovered
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Who the killers were
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My grandparents work while it's educated people and doing my grandmother was a doctor
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The hospital
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Then the worst started and my grandmother was taken from the street and
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By the local people
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And then what happened
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And what happened after that nobody know
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But in any way
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She did not
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Come
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I asked the genocide Center
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Obviously ain't
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To do the research for me especially on alet
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And it's written here clear
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That in 1941
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In August
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There were my Skilling of Jewish children
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And women
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The victims were
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To go into the
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To jump into the pits to lie
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Then they wear short
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All the people who used to work in the prison took part
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Together with the student
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Off a little
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So this
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Local school students
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Came together with the policeman vs
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And they consumes that what my uncle used to tell me that probably
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She is classmates who killed her his mother
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Funny that is such a difficult thing to comprehend the idea that it was
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It was your parents friends from school
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He was some of the ones who
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Actually participating in this process they must have known her they must
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Public unions in elevation
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Doesn't matter that they were citizens of Lithuania that they live in the same city
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But
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It should be you going to rain
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Should be
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Killed
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And they wake
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To only cry
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Was being Jewish
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That's enough
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Zenaida kuklianski
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And more than 2,000 other Jews were murdered here
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Not solely by Nazis
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But also by their fellow citizens
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No one knows what any of them are buried
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There was a cluster of monuments here in the forest
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But they will put up relatively recently and no one knows if they Mark any actual burials
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I do not know where my grandmother is I would like very much to know
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Where is her means
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The sculptures I think is more like art pieces not like
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The document pieces and I do not see
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Enya information here about the people
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When were they killed how many people were killed where the women are where the children
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That's where we are missing that
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We just do not know where they
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On up
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Fine it's invited Harry and Phil down from Leah Pia to try and put that right
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For this Forest
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Holds a puzzle
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We know in August September 1941
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We had approximately 2002
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Being executed and buried at this
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The flags in
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Red white
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The the idea that they're here is interesting
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But
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Where are they buried are they all buried at this location
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Or they buried at other locations within this larger Forest
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And so
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Our job is to try to find those sites
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The medicine elitist Forest
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Trouble me for another reason the elements of local collaboration
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And what happened here
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Was just the tip of the iceberg
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Her treat some lithuanians that determined to lay bare
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I'm heading to a small town just 20 km from elitist
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To me it's a prominent author and Holocaust researcher
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Cold router vanagata
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Route to introduces me to 94-year-old on a rodrika
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Taylor James's
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I want to grow up here among the town's Jewish population
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And she is the last known surviving Witness
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To their mass murder
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So we go with her and in my car okay
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It's very nice to meet you
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Is that comfortable
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The massacre on the witness took place on September 9th
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1941
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Not in the dark of a large Forest
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It's in the Open Fields in front of the house she lived in as a child
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What happened on that day
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Hey chill I put a day
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They bought yesterday about to say that yeah yeah a lot of people being March down
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And when did you see the first
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People coming
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Football
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It was going to break
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They heard the screaming
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That smoke a cry and screaming
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Come back we'll take
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Proskiller insurance
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Don't worry everybody
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Was going to tell me I will shower with you man and then we heard the shooting
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And who who was in the column
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Yahoo news
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Don't you forget
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Opportunity
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Well very good and children will be or being shot in
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And when you heard the shots you realize what was happening
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You'll give us that give give a circus
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Couldn't get me I'll go to the destination
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Yeah it's about
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I just passed this might in my head
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This is butramonis
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What most of the victims lived
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It's historic heart lies empty
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Because that September Day
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740 Jews
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80% of the town's population
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Were murdered
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The question is
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Who buy
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The killers were listening killer squad from alito's
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Coming to get rid of the juice
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So we talking about lithuanians killing yes of the living room
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But those the policeman and the partisans were neighbors of the Jew
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And the whole process throughout has been managed by these people's Neighbors
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Another town nearby
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And they are the ones who do the shooting they're the ones with their fingers on the tree
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The neighbors are taking the propert
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That's quite a thought isn't it
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And then they move into the houses around here presumably they take over the town and all the Jews are gone
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In one night
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In one night
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It's clear that the Holocaust here was much more than just a series of spontaneous Acts
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It was rapidly evolving into organized ethnic cleansing on a massive scale
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00:31:03,424 --> 00:31:09,568
In Elite's Forest Harry and Phil think they may have stumbled on the biggest Mass grave
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I've ever seen
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I mean obviously we're walking at a lower area that has
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Went to our left amount of stuff
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I mean
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Human
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Bill
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Most
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Wow human belt
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I mean I mean small copper but I mean the idea
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That where you are was where the trench would be
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And here you would be lining up people
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Being shot falling into the transfer you are
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Then burying
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With that settlement that you have
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And then continuing that along here
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Potentially months
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This is a trench we could have thousands of people
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This is one that is is not
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The discovery
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Is the result of resolute detective work
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Because the trench is nowhere near any of the Holocaust monuments
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So we checked out the area of the monument
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00:32:18,944 --> 00:32:22,272
All the data indicated really that there was nothing there
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00:32:22,784 --> 00:32:25,600
So I went back to the air photos to try to find something
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That potentially fit
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A large number of bodies could be buried
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And
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This is a 1944 luftwaffe air photographs of this area
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And if we zoom in
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What's interesting about it is this is the road that we come in on and these two roads that are coming off of it
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And this particular road is essentially a road to nowhere
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So ride the guys in the middle of a forest
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And stop
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I
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Yes I would agree with that
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But there is testimony of a family member soon after
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Her father and brother were murdered
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A visiting this site
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And seeing
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The evidence of trenches that were so fresh that they were staying with blood
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So that's what's at the end of the road yes
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That's what prompted us
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Start the look
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In this particular area
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Going on this and then one person will be moving the line
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I'm in a pond close inspection we found a series of trenches
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Leading up to at least visually
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Potentially the largest Trench
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This may be a mass grave or series of mass Graves
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There are tens of thousand
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The people bar
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The evidence is compelling
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But it's only circumstantial
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The only way they can be sure they found a mass burial
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Is to look beneath the surface
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Cuz they did so effectively at Leo pay
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So what we've done at this site is we started collecting a grid with ground penetrating radar
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And I'll show you a time slice as we go down into the sub
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And remarkably you know this we never know what we're going to get
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We see this feature right here
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This is what we are interpreting as a burial
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Cuz that's a normal list within the rest of this here it's really something distincts right now
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And so now we can start calculating
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The dimensions of a trench
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And it's not just here and goes all the way up
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Where this linear feature goes
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And goes all the way down
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Right downstairs and it does a right hand turn down there
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And there's
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I
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We can't even start doing the calculations we were just looking at the data right now
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This is a large feature
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And then we have seven to four seven to 11 M here
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Fun on the tapes here but take a look
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All the trees have been taken out at 7 m
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And they're gone all the way to 11 m
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All the way down this
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Walking past every day I wouldn't I wouldn't have noticed this detail how do you know I wouldn't have made it but now you pointed out it seems so obvious
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The clearly
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Something
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Has happened to this earth something has disrupted
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The continuity of this space
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When when we take I mean I just take a look out here we thought there was going to be nothing out here
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00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,304
And we see some you know linear features and things like that
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I you know I'm shocked when I walk around now I'm looking at things and it's like
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Potentially we are sitting on thousands
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00:35:21,728 --> 00:35:23,776
Of executed Jews at this
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00:35:27,104 --> 00:35:33,248
We could work here for years and years is one more and just find more yeah yeah
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Experience of being here today has been a really Stark
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Reminder of the point about taking
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Jewish individual
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Into a song like this
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I murdered him
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When the Nazis come into
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These territories they
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And various different ways and embarrassed different to capacities
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Different people who prepared
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To support it
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00:36:02,432 --> 00:36:06,528
Allow it to happen but sometimes to become directly
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Involved
538
00:36:08,064 --> 00:36:09,088
To become the people who
539
00:36:10,368 --> 00:36:11,136
The people
540
00:36:11,648 --> 00:36:12,672
With that fingers on the trig
541
00:36:16,256 --> 00:36:18,048
It's so important to remember
542
00:36:18,304 --> 00:36:20,352
Did the Nazis were at the center of this
543
00:36:20,608 --> 00:36:21,888
But they didn't act alone
544
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:23,424
They required
545
00:36:23,936 --> 00:36:25,728
The active participation of
546
00:36:26,240 --> 00:36:29,056
Hundreds of thousands of people they couldn't have done it
547
00:36:29,568 --> 00:36:30,336
Without that
548
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:41,856
Like a lot of formerly occupied Eastern European nations
549
00:36:42,624 --> 00:36:45,440
Molding with you idea has a history problem
550
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:50,048
Because the truth of its role in the Holocaust
551
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,352
He's finally coming out of the ground
552
00:36:53,632 --> 00:36:56,448
And it's being obliged to face up to it by writers
553
00:36:56,704 --> 00:36:57,984
Like roots of anagator
554
00:36:58,496 --> 00:36:59,264
Another 50
555
00:37:00,032 --> 00:37:01,056
The people who come to
556
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,408
Rachel this is something that you've gone to Great Lengths to investigate
557
00:37:05,664 --> 00:37:06,944
What happens when you did that
558
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,528
Michael about the color girls was published
559
00:37:11,040 --> 00:37:14,368
It became a bestseller but the action was very violent
560
00:37:14,624 --> 00:37:18,464
Some people accepted it but majority of my nation didn't accept
561
00:37:18,720 --> 00:37:20,000
And I became
562
00:37:20,256 --> 00:37:24,864
Like any of the country because I was like defaming my own people
563
00:37:25,632 --> 00:37:29,472
And they called me a Jewish w****
564
00:37:29,984 --> 00:37:31,776
So and then
565
00:37:32,032 --> 00:37:34,080
You know people were attacking me and
566
00:37:34,336 --> 00:37:36,128
Spitting at me on the street
567
00:37:36,896 --> 00:37:37,664
I
568
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:44,064
And in the long run I had to leave the country for a while until they forgive not forgive me but forgive me
569
00:37:44,576 --> 00:37:47,904
So speaking out came a great personal cost to you
570
00:37:48,672 --> 00:37:49,440
I don't regret
571
00:37:49,696 --> 00:37:51,232
Yes you did but I don't
572
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,584
I don't know that it will be such a violet direction that would have done it anyway
573
00:37:55,840 --> 00:37:58,656
Because I spoke for the victims this is my Army
574
00:37:59,168 --> 00:38:02,240
$200,000 people this is Miami they gave me a lot of
575
00:38:03,008 --> 00:38:04,800
And if you publish the book today
576
00:38:05,056 --> 00:38:06,848
Do you think you would get the same reaction
577
00:38:07,104 --> 00:38:08,640
They won't be put in published
578
00:38:11,200 --> 00:38:14,272
And nobody asked me nobody would write the book about the holoc
579
00:38:14,784 --> 00:38:16,832
Because people know that you lose your friends
580
00:38:17,088 --> 00:38:18,880
And you get you become a public en
581
00:38:19,136 --> 00:38:25,024
So what is said when this comes up and conversation what is it what do you say
582
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,608
So they would say it wasn't us it wasn't us kind of
583
00:38:28,864 --> 00:38:29,376
I mean
584
00:38:29,632 --> 00:38:35,008
I told my friend that I'm coming to see the Germany with him with a BBC crew
585
00:38:35,264 --> 00:38:36,288
And said
586
00:38:37,056 --> 00:38:39,360
Are you going to tell the whole world again
587
00:38:39,616 --> 00:38:41,152
And the same our country
588
00:38:42,176 --> 00:38:45,760
And tell everybody that you know we kill the Jews and things kill the Jews
589
00:38:46,272 --> 00:38:46,784
I said
590
00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:48,832
Yes she said why
591
00:38:49,088 --> 00:38:50,880
I said because they did
592
00:38:52,160 --> 00:38:54,208
Bloody uneducated
593
00:38:54,976 --> 00:39:01,120
Uneducated the school hasn't educated us our parents hasn't educate us
594
00:39:01,376 --> 00:39:02,912
Grandparate to speak about
595
00:39:03,168 --> 00:39:04,192
Who could
596
00:39:04,448 --> 00:39:05,728
Ask about what
597
00:39:06,752 --> 00:39:10,336
Moment Calico subject is closed
598
00:39:10,848 --> 00:39:11,872
I don't know for how long
599
00:39:18,528 --> 00:39:19,040
Years ago
600
00:39:19,552 --> 00:39:22,112
Many lithuanians welcome the invading Nazis
601
00:39:22,368 --> 00:39:24,928
For what seemed at the time to be a very sound reason
602
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:27,232
Because the Nazis
603
00:39:27,488 --> 00:39:33,632
Will liberating them from communism the same nationalist response
604
00:39:33,888 --> 00:39:35,936
Manifested across all the Baltic states
605
00:39:36,704 --> 00:39:42,848
As well as large parts of Ukraine
606
00:39:43,104 --> 00:39:49,248
What's the fire from Blue terrorist everywhere National
607
00:39:49,504 --> 00:39:51,552
To find the Flames of anti-communism
608
00:39:52,832 --> 00:39:55,392
And the Nazis pushed the myth of that communism
609
00:39:55,904 --> 00:40:02,048
Has a Jewish conspiracy
610
00:40:04,096 --> 00:40:08,960
Has Hitler's invasion of the USSR reached its fullest extent coercion
611
00:40:09,216 --> 00:40:12,032
And complicity across territories under Nazi control
612
00:40:12,288 --> 00:40:18,176
I love the SS to initiate nearly 2,000 atrocities across seven countries
613
00:40:18,432 --> 00:40:19,200
From the Baltic
614
00:40:19,712 --> 00:40:20,736
The Black Sea
615
00:40:21,760 --> 00:40:25,088
Scaling up their murderous ambition in Village after Village
616
00:40:25,344 --> 00:40:26,624
Town Off The Town
617
00:40:34,048 --> 00:40:35,328
Has victim numbers grew
618
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:39,424
The SS developed a system for ensuring maximum efficiency
619
00:40:39,936 --> 00:40:40,960
A minimal pan
620
00:40:42,752 --> 00:40:45,824
It began with a calming ruse
621
00:40:46,592 --> 00:40:48,384
Jews were told to assemble with money
622
00:40:48,896 --> 00:40:49,408
Belongings
623
00:40:50,176 --> 00:40:51,200
I'm warm clothing
624
00:40:53,760 --> 00:40:55,040
So they waited patiently
625
00:40:55,808 --> 00:40:57,344
Expecting to be deported
626
00:40:59,904 --> 00:41:01,184
They will let away in groups
627
00:41:01,440 --> 00:41:02,976
Often buy local police
628
00:41:03,744 --> 00:41:04,256
To be shot
629
00:41:10,912 --> 00:41:16,544
When the Germans took the Ukrainian capital
630
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:19,616
Keith in late September 1941
631
00:41:20,128 --> 00:41:22,688
They claim their biggest Soviet City so far
632
00:41:23,456 --> 00:41:26,272
With tens of thousands of Jews
633
00:41:28,576 --> 00:41:30,112
And that says Commander
634
00:41:30,368 --> 00:41:31,392
Friedrich yekel
635
00:41:31,648 --> 00:41:33,440
So the chance to perfect mass murder
636
00:41:33,696 --> 00:41:35,232
On a Monumental scale
637
00:41:38,816 --> 00:41:41,888
He issued the standard order to the city's Jews to assemble
638
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:54,943
Then he had them at school today out of town by local police along this road to a
639
00:41:55,199 --> 00:41:55,711
Continue to Deep
640
00:41:56,479 --> 00:41:58,015
Half kilometer Long Ravine
641
00:41:58,527 --> 00:41:59,807
Cool babinya
642
00:42:03,903 --> 00:42:05,951
Here they were strip naked
643
00:42:06,719 --> 00:42:08,511
Ready for the waiting guns
644
00:42:21,311 --> 00:42:22,079
New Virginia
645
00:42:25,663 --> 00:42:27,711
The account's plan was carefully engineered
646
00:42:28,479 --> 00:42:30,015
Yet Dina prone to shaver
647
00:42:30,527 --> 00:42:31,295
Survived it
648
00:42:33,855 --> 00:42:35,135
That is difficult
649
00:42:46,911 --> 00:42:48,959
Onion physical science
650
00:42:59,967 --> 00:43:01,759
More beautiful
651
00:43:09,695 --> 00:43:15,839
You're too supposed to hit
652
00:43:16,095 --> 00:43:22,239
These are the belongings of those
653
00:43:22,495 --> 00:43:25,823
Those who didn't Escape
654
00:43:26,335 --> 00:43:29,663
On 29th and 30th September 1941
655
00:43:30,175 --> 00:43:32,991
The accounts men shot 33,
656
00:43:33,247 --> 00:43:35,551
771 men
657
00:43:36,063 --> 00:43:36,575
Women
658
00:43:37,087 --> 00:43:43,231
And children
659
00:43:43,487 --> 00:43:44,511
700 people
660
00:43:44,767 --> 00:43:46,559
An hour
661
00:43:46,815 --> 00:43:52,959
For 2 days
662
00:43:53,215 --> 00:43:59,103
Popping you was the biggest single Massacre of the Holocaust thus far
663
00:44:00,383 --> 00:44:02,943
Yes it would become just one notable landmark
664
00:44:03,711 --> 00:44:06,271
In a continental killing spree
665
00:44:22,399 --> 00:44:28,543
By the end of 1941 over a million people have been killed under the hail of bullets that the Nazis and their
666
00:44:28,799 --> 00:44:29,567
Operators are throwing
667
00:44:30,591 --> 00:44:32,895
$25,000 murdered here in Riga
668
00:44:34,431 --> 00:44:36,479
Murdered here in counter
669
00:44:37,759 --> 00:44:38,783
In pain already
670
00:44:39,039 --> 00:44:40,575
It means $30,
671
00:44:40,831 --> 00:44:43,135
In Kiev 34,
672
00:44:43,391 --> 00:44:45,183
Incoming expodolski we've got
673
00:44:45,439 --> 00:44:48,767
$25,000 and down in Odessa we've got 30,000
674
00:44:49,023 --> 00:44:52,863
Hundreds of thousands of Jews and thousands more between all of these places
675
00:44:53,119 --> 00:44:56,959
It doesn't start as a plan of total Annihilation that's something evolves
676
00:44:57,215 --> 00:44:59,007
It's part of these operations here
677
00:44:59,519 --> 00:45:01,055
Well they've been able to do here
678
00:45:01,567 --> 00:45:07,711
Conceptualizing something within there within their minds they hadn't previously anticipated in this way they can kill them they
679
00:45:10,783 --> 00:45:12,063
Across the whole territory
680
00:45:12,319 --> 00:45:14,879
But the largest number of Jews still alive here
681
00:45:15,135 --> 00:45:16,415
In occupied pilot
682
00:45:16,927 --> 00:45:18,719
The living in ghettos they're living in
683
00:45:18,975 --> 00:45:20,767
Terrible conditions they suffered
684
00:45:21,023 --> 00:45:22,303
Cooling later in this period
685
00:45:22,559 --> 00:45:25,887
But there's been no Central plans for nihilate them until now
686
00:45:27,679 --> 00:45:33,823
What changes the end of 1941
687
00:45:40,479 --> 00:45:44,575
When the Nazi sit out to murder the millions of Jews languishing in their ghettos
688
00:45:44,831 --> 00:45:50,975
They did not use millions of bullets
689
00:45:51,231 --> 00:45:57,375
By the end of 194
690
00:45:58,655 --> 00:46:01,471
After more than a million individual murders
691
00:46:02,239 --> 00:46:03,263
My shooting
692
00:46:03,775 --> 00:46:06,079
Had become unsustainable
693
00:46:08,127 --> 00:46:09,663
And when we look at these photos
694
00:46:09,919 --> 00:46:12,479
We start to understand why that is
695
00:46:12,991 --> 00:46:14,015
Can see here
696
00:46:14,271 --> 00:46:15,295
These young men
697
00:46:15,807 --> 00:46:18,111
Effacing of the human beings
698
00:46:18,879 --> 00:46:19,647
I'm killing them
699
00:46:21,183 --> 00:46:22,207
Miss seeing
700
00:46:23,487 --> 00:46:24,511
What are they doing
701
00:46:25,535 --> 00:46:26,303
First hand
702
00:46:27,071 --> 00:46:28,095
Face to face
703
00:46:29,887 --> 00:46:32,703
I'm not sending us he's become really concerned about
704
00:46:33,215 --> 00:46:35,775
The mental health of the people that are doing it
705
00:46:36,799 --> 00:46:38,335
Never the people that have been killed
706
00:46:38,591 --> 00:46:39,871
People that are doing it
707
00:46:42,687 --> 00:46:43,455
They know
708
00:46:43,967 --> 00:46:45,503
If that's something
709
00:46:46,271 --> 00:46:46,783
Which
710
00:46:47,807 --> 00:46:49,855
Is going to be impossible for them
711
00:46:50,367 --> 00:46:53,695
To deal with they talk about it it's a burdening of the Soul
712
00:46:56,255 --> 00:46:59,583
There's reports here of these soldiers getting nausea
713
00:46:59,839 --> 00:47:01,631
Nervous tension during the massacres
714
00:47:02,399 --> 00:47:04,703
In many cases Killers suffered vomiting attack
715
00:47:05,215 --> 00:47:08,799
Will develop severe eczema or other psychosomatic disorders
716
00:47:09,311 --> 00:47:11,103
You know that this this sense that
717
00:47:11,359 --> 00:47:12,639
Did this
718
00:47:13,151 --> 00:47:14,943
Generation will be corrupted
719
00:47:15,711 --> 00:47:16,223
Forever
720
00:47:16,479 --> 00:47:20,063
In the name of the re
721
00:47:23,135 --> 00:47:25,951
The other big factor was location
722
00:47:30,047 --> 00:47:33,631
Everything's happened so far everything that I've looked at
723
00:47:33,887 --> 00:47:40,031
Has happened a long way from the heart of Germany it's in this kind of this wild East in the Nazi imagination
724
00:47:40,287 --> 00:47:44,383
Different place with different things can happen different permissibility we see here
725
00:47:44,639 --> 00:47:50,783
The absolutely Indescribable scene of Carnage and it's so public and it's so barbaric and it's completely
726
00:47:51,551 --> 00:47:53,087
And even the Nazis
727
00:47:53,343 --> 00:47:54,111
Finess
728
00:47:54,623 --> 00:47:56,159
What kind of scene unconscionable
729
00:47:56,927 --> 00:47:57,439
Killing
730
00:47:57,951 --> 00:48:01,279
Punches of thousands millions of people is something they can accept
731
00:48:01,535 --> 00:48:03,583
But from that perspective things develop
732
00:48:03,839 --> 00:48:05,631
There are ways that it should be done
733
00:48:05,887 --> 00:48:06,655
And this isn't
734
00:48:14,079 --> 00:48:17,151
So they need to find a new means of mass murder
735
00:48:17,407 --> 00:48:18,687
That can be scaled up
736
00:48:19,711 --> 00:48:20,479
That can be
737
00:48:20,735 --> 00:48:21,247
Efficient
738
00:48:22,271 --> 00:48:23,039
That can be
739
00:48:23,295 --> 00:48:24,063
Secret
740
00:48:24,831 --> 00:48:26,367
And that can be
741
00:48:26,879 --> 00:48:27,647
Civilized
742
00:48:28,415 --> 00:48:29,183
In that
743
00:48:29,439 --> 00:48:30,975
Much more closely aligned
744
00:48:31,231 --> 00:48:32,511
This new Germany
745
00:48:33,023 --> 00:48:34,559
The Hitler wants to create
746
00:48:36,863 --> 00:48:41,215
One of the men's tossed with finding those new civilized ways of killing
747
00:48:41,727 --> 00:48:42,751
Was an SS major
748
00:48:43,007 --> 00:48:45,311
Could Herbert Langer
749
00:48:48,383 --> 00:48:49,407
And this Forest
750
00:48:49,663 --> 00:48:52,479
Called casimir's biscopy in the west of Poland
751
00:48:52,991 --> 00:48:55,807
Is what language was given to use as a laboratory
752
00:49:04,511 --> 00:49:07,071
The team of researchers from across Poland
753
00:49:07,327 --> 00:49:10,911
Is attempting to find the evidence left behind by Lang as experiments
754
00:49:13,983 --> 00:49:19,615
Traces of mass Graves can be seen in the Nazis own aerial photographs
755
00:49:20,127 --> 00:49:23,711
Elvis crematorium
756
00:49:24,223 --> 00:49:27,295
Hopes that will help locate extraordinary events described
757
00:49:27,551 --> 00:49:30,111
And I witness testimony
758
00:49:35,999 --> 00:49:37,535
This is part of our team
759
00:49:38,303 --> 00:49:43,423
Hello Sebastian University
760
00:49:43,935 --> 00:49:49,567
And Simone hello hello
761
00:49:50,079 --> 00:49:52,383
Nice to meet you nice to meet you too thank you
762
00:49:53,151 --> 00:49:54,175
Say what if we
763
00:49:54,431 --> 00:49:55,199
Found here
764
00:49:56,991 --> 00:49:57,503
Okay
765
00:49:58,271 --> 00:50:00,831
That this is this depression here
766
00:50:01,087 --> 00:50:05,951
This this message and
767
00:50:06,975 --> 00:50:09,279
It could be the Musgrave we are looking for
768
00:50:09,535 --> 00:50:11,839
Just where I was standing now
769
00:50:12,863 --> 00:50:18,495
From one perspective it can look like just a regular mask Gray from the water time
770
00:50:18,751 --> 00:50:19,775
However
771
00:50:20,031 --> 00:50:24,127
We know from a single testimony we have
772
00:50:24,383 --> 00:50:26,943
Of a pre-work vet polish vet
773
00:50:27,455 --> 00:50:33,343
Who was brought here as a prisoner political prisoner he was brought here with the other posts
774
00:50:34,111 --> 00:50:35,903
Forced to assist the Germans
775
00:50:36,159 --> 00:50:39,999
In killing a Jewish people from a neighboring
776
00:50:40,255 --> 00:50:40,767
Ghett
777
00:50:41,023 --> 00:50:44,351
So people were brought in cards here alive
778
00:50:44,863 --> 00:50:47,167
The pits were already
779
00:50:47,423 --> 00:50:48,703
Waiting for them
780
00:50:49,471 --> 00:50:50,751
They were not shot
781
00:50:51,007 --> 00:50:52,799
They were just
782
00:50:53,055 --> 00:50:54,847
They were just covered with
783
00:50:55,103 --> 00:50:55,871
Quick lime
784
00:50:56,127 --> 00:50:58,431
And burned inside the pit
785
00:50:58,687 --> 00:50:59,967
Incident Doug p
786
00:51:01,247 --> 00:51:02,527
Quit climb into the pit
787
00:51:02,783 --> 00:51:04,831
Brought containers with water
788
00:51:05,343 --> 00:51:08,927
Brought people inside brought containers with water and put
789
00:51:09,183 --> 00:51:10,463
The water inside
790
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:11,231
What
791
00:51:11,487 --> 00:51:13,279
What made the quick line to
792
00:51:13,535 --> 00:51:14,047
Re
793
00:51:14,303 --> 00:51:16,095
Chemically boil
794
00:51:16,351 --> 00:51:18,399
Repeat boiling people
795
00:51:18,911 --> 00:51:19,679
Inside
796
00:51:20,191 --> 00:51:22,239
And this is what we know from this
797
00:51:22,495 --> 00:51:25,823
Testimony of a Polish that he was here for from the very
798
00:51:26,079 --> 00:51:29,919
Beginning Until the End first afterwards with other post
799
00:51:30,175 --> 00:51:31,967
To bury the victims
800
00:51:35,295 --> 00:51:36,831
Right where we are here there was a
801
00:51:37,087 --> 00:51:38,111
How much people
802
00:51:39,391 --> 00:51:40,159
Boil the
803
00:51:40,415 --> 00:51:40,927
Correct
804
00:51:42,463 --> 00:51:43,487
Do you know how long it took
805
00:51:43,743 --> 00:51:45,791
According to some cabbage several hours
806
00:51:48,863 --> 00:51:49,375
We think
807
00:51:49,631 --> 00:51:50,399
That
808
00:51:50,655 --> 00:51:52,703
Experimental killing side here
809
00:51:53,471 --> 00:51:54,495
Why was Thunder yeah
810
00:51:55,263 --> 00:51:56,287
They were just trying out
811
00:51:57,055 --> 00:51:58,591
Different ways he has different type of
812
00:51:59,103 --> 00:51:59,871
Killing
813
00:52:06,271 --> 00:52:10,623
It's believed Langer killed 3,000 Jews here in a series of Trials
814
00:52:11,391 --> 00:52:13,439
Which included not just lime pits
815
00:52:13,951 --> 00:52:15,743
But Mobile Gas fans
816
00:52:19,071 --> 00:52:22,143
It was just a pure technical like a rehearsal
817
00:52:23,167 --> 00:52:26,239
Which method would be the most effective efficient
818
00:52:26,495 --> 00:52:31,359
As if the Nazis were just getting ready for the big task that was ahead
819
00:52:31,871 --> 00:52:34,431
Meaning killing the European jewelry
820
00:52:35,455 --> 00:52:36,223
Clearly
821
00:52:36,479 --> 00:52:38,271
Does an intention is being
822
00:52:38,527 --> 00:52:41,855
Consolidated from within the heart of the Nazi
823
00:52:42,367 --> 00:52:47,743
Hierarchino from Hitler from the top down there's this idea of this intention is becoming more and more and more
824
00:52:47,999 --> 00:52:49,023
Determined towards
825
00:52:49,535 --> 00:52:51,583
Final Solution which is about
826
00:52:51,839 --> 00:52:53,375
Complete Annihilation but of course
827
00:52:53,887 --> 00:52:55,167
As an intention
828
00:52:55,679 --> 00:53:01,823
That is meaningless without the means of achieving it and that's what we see the actual practical means of achieving
829
00:53:06,175 --> 00:53:07,711
They are drawing conclusions
830
00:53:08,223 --> 00:53:10,527
Lime is expensive
831
00:53:10,783 --> 00:53:14,367
Gas in Vegas was also inconvenient
832
00:53:14,623 --> 00:53:20,767
So it just drives longer to a natural conclusion that it doesn't work we need to think about
833
00:53:21,023 --> 00:53:22,303
About something else
834
00:53:25,119 --> 00:53:26,911
Took my experimentation but this is
835
00:53:27,167 --> 00:53:29,983
The people that have been experimental done are real
836
00:53:30,495 --> 00:53:33,311
People I mean yes
837
00:53:37,407 --> 00:53:41,759
How to ask his team continues to search the forest for more of Langer's victims
838
00:53:42,271 --> 00:53:48,415
The longer himself concluded that the
839
00:53:48,671 --> 00:53:54,815
Mom said he was looking for did not lie in forests he'd found the most
840
00:53:55,071 --> 00:54:01,215
Most efficient killing agent was gas but it needed to be used in a completely different location
841
00:54:01,471 --> 00:54:07,615
Well like I
842
00:54:07,871 --> 00:54:14,015
Realized in fact was that the future of mass murder lay in the past
843
00:54:14,271 --> 00:54:20,415
In an old SS prison called 47
844
00:54:20,671 --> 00:54:23,487
Hey in 1939
845
00:54:23,743 --> 00:54:27,583
Langa have been part of a project called action T4
846
00:54:29,887 --> 00:54:33,215
T4 was created to purge the Third Reich of the disabled
847
00:54:33,727 --> 00:54:35,519
For the Nazis called
848
00:54:36,031 --> 00:54:42,175
I'm worthy of life
849
00:54:42,431 --> 00:54:48,575
And the key to t4's efficiency Lang a recall
850
00:54:49,087 --> 00:54:51,903
Had been to bring the victims to the means of killing
851
00:54:52,415 --> 00:54:54,463
Inside a special secure
852
00:54:54,719 --> 00:54:56,255
Facility
853
00:54:56,511 --> 00:54:58,047
In this quiet old
854
00:54:58,559 --> 00:55:02,655
Langer had improvised A Whole New Concept in mass murder
855
00:55:13,663 --> 00:55:15,711
Well maybe the world's first gas chamber
856
00:55:24,927 --> 00:55:26,207
People will end up here
857
00:55:26,463 --> 00:55:28,255
The doors were close behind them
858
00:55:29,535 --> 00:55:34,399
When they're ruling clay was put around the edges outside to see it off
859
00:55:35,423 --> 00:55:38,495
And then chips will put through openings in the door
860
00:55:38,751 --> 00:55:41,311
Three days Chiefs carbon monoxide was pumped
861
00:55:41,823 --> 00:55:43,359
Concealed bottles
862
00:55:44,383 --> 00:55:45,919
People would wait outside
863
00:55:47,711 --> 00:55:50,015
When there was no more noise inside
864
00:55:50,271 --> 00:55:52,319
Because I knew that when he was dead
865
00:55:56,159 --> 00:56:00,511
For the end of 1941 has become clear the Hitler's ambition
866
00:56:00,767 --> 00:56:06,911
Is to murder every single Jew across not your partner Nazi Allied Europe and in
867
00:56:07,167 --> 00:56:07,935
To do that
868
00:56:08,191 --> 00:56:09,983
He needs the necessary scale
869
00:56:14,079 --> 00:56:14,847
It need
870
00:56:15,103 --> 00:56:17,663
Development and it's the development of our idea
871
00:56:17,919 --> 00:56:19,199
Which is what leads us
872
00:56:36,095 --> 00:56:37,119
So these ends
873
00:56:37,631 --> 00:56:38,911
Contain ashes
874
00:56:40,959 --> 00:56:43,263
Different camps across Europe
875
00:56:44,543 --> 00:56:46,847
Olympic confronted Me is from helmet
876
00:56:47,359 --> 00:56:53,503
Tell him that is where her Belanger went directly from here and it became the first death camp
877
00:56:53,759 --> 00:56:59,391
I'm from not a network was develops the led to the murder of millions of people
878
00:57:00,415 --> 00:57:01,695
And it'll started
879
00:57:26,527 --> 00:57:29,855
From early 1942
880
00:57:30,111 --> 00:57:36,255
Millions of Jews were taken from all across Nazi occupied Europe and sent to EXT
881
00:57:36,511 --> 00:57:37,279
Elimination camps
882
00:57:37,535 --> 00:57:43,423
Like this one to become no more than us
883
00:57:43,679 --> 00:57:49,823
A memory it took just
884
00:57:50,079 --> 00:57:55,967
Months to get here from the first bullet fired in the East how did that happen
885
00:58:02,879 --> 00:58:09,023
Of course there was Hitler's poison
886
00:58:09,279 --> 00:58:10,303
This ideology
887
00:58:10,559 --> 00:58:16,703
But it needed more than ideology that needed
888
00:58:16,959 --> 00:58:23,103
Tons of thousands of ordinary people to portray a neighbor
889
00:58:23,359 --> 00:58:26,431
Will turn their backs and say nothing
890
00:58:26,687 --> 00:58:32,831
To help round up and Rob to sign an order pull
891
00:58:33,087 --> 00:58:39,231
Trigger or open a valve
892
00:58:41,535 --> 00:58:42,559
To see others
893
00:58:42,815 --> 00:58:44,607
The sufficiently different from them
894
00:58:46,143 --> 00:58:46,911
To be killed
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