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If I say the word holocaust what brings to mind

I mentioned something like this

Concentration camp

Barbed wire

Train loads of victim

Gas Chambers and crematoria

Places like a house fits

And the system of mass murder

I think most of us assume that this was always the predetermined destination

Designed from the outset and some great master plan of extermination

It wasn't

It wasn't a master plan for this it's Origins were chaotic and spont

Genius

An improvised Mass executions

It's believed the more than a million Jews were murdered

In thousands of random killings that erupted all across Eastern Europe

In the Holocaust of bullets

Largely lost

Forgotten for more than 80 years this first chapter of the greatest crime in

Is now being fully revealed for the first time

Thanks to newly discovered aerial photographs

An advances in forensic detection

Finding lost victims

Uncovering the true scale of The Killing

He began in Earnest in the midst of Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941

Atrocities grew in scale and savagery

Until just 6 months later

Bullets gave way to gas

In the first death camps

Of the final solution

My name is James Belgian I'm a historian and Holocaust

Specialist at the Imperial War Museum and this film tells a story that has never been fully

Of the crucial 6 months that ignited the Holocaust

If you going to search for the events that started the Holocaust

Cambridge University Library might seem a strange place to look

But a researcher here

Thinks he can find that start

Using second world war aerial archives

How are you good to see

Let me show you what we've been putting together

This is

Map of the German reconnaissance and our survey photography

Taken during the second World War

I have photographs taken by the Germans primarily over Central and Eastern Europe

But if we're looking for the ramshackle beginnings of the Holocaust as it were the sort of ad

The start of it

One of the things

They have a photographing evidence of Aaron crimes

And there's a good example of this

Possibly

The German border here

The Jewish inhabitants it was about 20% 30% Jewish before the war

They would have

In the houses

Of the two Jewish streets here

I'm listening

And on the 22nd of

June 1941 of course the Germans pushed East and within

Literally 24 hours of coming over the

The board of the Germans are destroyed

You can see

How are you here was burned

Turn that

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

What do they come through and they

This this

Incident happens here so quickly

So soon so close

Well look at

If you look

It's not part of the Agricultural landscape is not a path

I think this is a trench

We have certain amount of

To sort of indicate that this is precisely where

The Jewish men have been marched

Up up the street in which they had lived

I'm with then shot to death

Unbur

In that Trench

So I've been up

I've been circling this question how do we get to the huge

Boss catastrophic Act of mass violence mass murder

And it's possible

Likely

Is where it began

Sorry

If Chris has found a possible start point for the holoca

Why is it in the Soviet Union

As late as 1941

Head

Always envisage the world free of his two great enemies Jews

Communists

By 19

40 he conquered half of Europe

And have millions of Jews rounded up and putting ghettos

His intention had always been to get rid of them entirely

But there was no concrete plan for how to do it

Then June 1941

He sets out to destroy his other great enemy Bolshevik communism

Hitler had always branded communism a Jew

Conspiracy so his invasion of the Soviet Union offered the perfect opportunity

To Target both enemies at once

Dodge day on the border of Soviet Lithuania and Nazi Germany was right on the front

I'm lying of that invasion

The Vermont today sweat into this whole area

I will charge with this instruction from Hitler and the commanders of the army that this was a war of annihilation they were coming

Going through this space to decimate it the order

What's for communism to be eradicated

No specific order was given to kill Jews

Yeah there was a monument here in God's day

Exactly where Chris's photos showed a trench

It's on the 24th of June

2 days off to the gym invasion of the Soviet Union

Come on they're in this area

My name is Burma

Instructed the 200g should be rounded up

They should be bought here

They should be

Tend to think of military orders within the German Army at this period

Is all coming from the top

The people at the top telling the people on the ground what to do that's not what happens here

Really important because actually what happens is people on the ground like Burma take their own in

Hitler was always wanted to remove juice from Europe and here these men take the initiative

Way possible

To murder and it starts a process of mass murder

The spreads by Wildfire across this whole territory and the numbers grow and they grow

And they grow

Hitler's head of security was SS Chief Heinrich Himmler Himmler

Created special killing squads called inserts Groupon to follow in the wake of the army and eradicate Hitler's polit

Enemies

Capitalizing on Burma's initiative

His deputy hydr

Issued an instruction that any Jew working for the communist state

Must be shot

For Ein sets gripping teams were ready to carry out that order

Across all newly conquered Soviet territory

I'm following onto scorpion a from God's day

Into Latvia

And a town called Leah Pia

Here there was another fierce battle for

Told the city

Dinosaurs

In the aftermath of the battle

Yes assignments Groupon went in search of Hitler's enemies

And we can see what they did with them

In a unique piece of film shot by a German serviceman

In the opening of this film here we see a

Looks to be freshly dug

Then the answer is gripping soldiers Milling around waiting

And is this really hideous since fantasipation and then

We see why we see a truck arrive

And people being loaded off the back of it

We can see

Play the Jews we know the Jews because they're wearing patches on their front and their back

The Germans but around them

We see spectators

Around here we see members of the Navy here military here

Amongst them just people

They're there in huge numbers

They're smoking they're talking the clamoring to get a closer look to see what's about to happen

Group of the group come and the people stay and they watch it

Hey we can see this man just looking into the camera

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

When he's gone

It's horrible

It's it's almost as if shooting Jesus become spectator sport

A few weeks after the invasion

So the Vermont to start to push further into Soviet territory the answer coming behind them and they're finding more

Jewish communities to Target

And they're keeping the running title of it as they go they want to be able to report those figures

Impetus this this

Constantly

Find more juice to kill let me see that recorded here

Of August 41

And now they include you didn't and you didn't kinda

Women

Children

Is only taking a few weeks from those first Murders At guys died for this

To accelerate here

It says

614 people

The Nazis wanted to do more than just kill their victims

They wanted to erase them from memory

The graves of many tens of thousands have never been found

And that matters to Dr Harry Joel

So much so

He's devoted his career to finding them you can't just hide the buttons

The bodies will be found

I'm trying to as a physical geographer Jim morphologist and people such as myself and academ

Thanks and others need to say

Let's take our tools that we use for other

Research projects

And let's apply them to the Holocaust

We need to put closer to this

It does line up brill

For smoking building

But if I smoke stack

Would be just beyond that modern building on the other side of it

So we can't see the pit from here but if we back up

Harry what's with fellow us academic

Dr Phil read

There's the

And every summer for the last 7 years

They've been bringing teams of students to Eastern Europe in search of Holocaust victims

We have a different perspective on it now but

If we look up

Birth to students are they're standing where the crowd was stand

And

Today

They're looking for the men in the film

But then as they run

Look there's Lighthouse you can see the lighthouse right there

That's it

The film gives them a landmarks they can locate on historic air photos of the site

Allowing them to triangulate where the men were shot

And where they should start their search

But here's that road where they would have taken people

And then we see all those

Cars parked

And where they're actually dropped off

So I think that's a good spot for in the video where they're getting out of the trucks

There's actually a structure right there

And cuz you can see the people up on this side and people up on this side

And then they would run to the pit over here

So the

To me is right out here in front of

At least that's the place to start

Today at law forbids any physical disturbance of the dead so they're digging

With radio waves ground penetrating radar gives them the ability to image

Any large feature buried in the Earth

Like a mass grave after a few hours

They find what appears to be a buried Trench

But it's facing the wrong way to be the one in the film

Literally in that direction

Right so it's almost 90° off of we expecting looking at the photos and taking a look at it here

Maybe means that you're multiple trenches and you know the video is just one point in time

Where that particular trench is being used

So there could be trenches everywhere

Off the multiple passes of the GPR

Another trench appears beneath the tarmac

And this one

Lines up exactly with the film

As we take a look at this trench it's pretty impressive you know this is 38 M long

Get all this probably the first or second time I've ever seen something like this

I mean it stands out very clearly

I mean from all the time spent watching the video

It fits very well with what we imagine the angle would be the trench coming in towards the Fortress

And you know they were basically brought into the trench

And fell against this side when they were shot

All the pieces of the puzzle

Are here yeah

But at the same time there's more work to do

Oh certainly

The men in the film have finally been found

But it's clear there were more people shot buried here than anyone ever realized

I'm further along the same stretch of coast

A few months after Leah pies men

Thousands of women and children were shot and buried in the sands

No one knows exactly how many

Where that bodies lie

Is there any since the fall of the Soviet Union the mass Graves like these

Lost for over 80 years of being forensically investigated for the first time

The Pioneers like Harry and Phil are just scratching the surface of a Monumental task

In Latvia there are more than

Expected Holocaust sites

Most of yet to be fully explored

The same is true and neighboring Lithuania with more than 200 suspected sites

What seems extraordinary

Is it that was a single insect scrub a team a fewer than a thousand men

To account for an estimated quarter of a million deaths across both countries

There's only one way that was possible and it's one of the most dist

Disturbing aspects of this entire story

Widespre

Local complicity

And there's evidence of that happening here

In the Lithuanian town of elitist so we're just driving into

To the town now from exactly the same direction that the Germans came in

On the 22nd of June 1941 so on the very start to The Invasion this is where

They were coming from and behind them with these answers grouper Soldiers with this task of

Looking for the town's Jews

They found them in the town and the surrounding villages

And according to Nazi records

Nearly two and a half thousand Jews were rounded up

And bought to be murdered in the nearby Forest

The town and the very same road driven on three the center of elitist becomes

I see Harris

It's becoming a disorder trying and now we're in forest

Oh I find really really chilling and really un

Is the fact that it's walking distance from the middle of the town

But who bought the thousands of Jews here

And who killed them

Because the SS

Have fewer than a dozen men stationed in this area

I'm here to meet the leader of Lithuania surviving Jewish community

Find a quick lanski believes her grandmother was killed in this Forest

And she may have discovered

Who the killers were

My grandparents work while it's educated people and doing my grandmother was a doctor

The hospital

Then the worst started and my grandmother was taken from the street and

By the local people

And then what happened

And what happened after that nobody know

But in any way

She did not

Come

I asked the genocide Center

Obviously ain't

To do the research for me especially on alet

And it's written here clear

That in 1941

In August

There were my Skilling of Jewish children

And women

The victims were

To go into the

To jump into the pits to lie

Then they wear short

All the people who used to work in the prison took part

Together with the student

Off a little

So this

Local school students

Came together with the policeman vs

And they consumes that what my uncle used to tell me that probably

She is classmates who killed her his mother

Funny that is such a difficult thing to comprehend the idea that it was

It was your parents friends from school

He was some of the ones who

Actually participating in this process they must have known her they must

Public unions in elevation

Doesn't matter that they were citizens of Lithuania that they live in the same city

But

It should be you going to rain

Should be

Killed

And they wake

To only cry

Was being Jewish

That's enough

Zenaida kuklianski

And more than 2,000 other Jews were murdered here

Not solely by Nazis

But also by their fellow citizens

No one knows what any of them are buried

There was a cluster of monuments here in the forest

But they will put up relatively recently and no one knows if they Mark any actual burials

I do not know where my grandmother is I would like very much to know

Where is her means

The sculptures I think is more like art pieces not like

The document pieces and I do not see

Enya information here about the people

When were they killed how many people were killed where the women are where the children

That's where we are missing that

We just do not know where they

On up

Fine it's invited Harry and Phil down from Leah Pia to try and put that right

For this Forest

Holds a puzzle

We know in August September 1941

We had approximately 2002

Being executed and buried at this

The flags in

Red white

The the idea that they're here is interesting

But

Where are they buried are they all buried at this location

Or they buried at other locations within this larger Forest

And so

Our job is to try to find those sites

The medicine elitist Forest

Trouble me for another reason the elements of local collaboration

And what happened here

Was just the tip of the iceberg

Her treat some lithuanians that determined to lay bare

I'm heading to a small town just 20 km from elitist

To me it's a prominent author and Holocaust researcher

Cold router vanagata

Route to introduces me to 94-year-old on a rodrika

Taylor James's

I want to grow up here among the town's Jewish population

And she is the last known surviving Witness

To their mass murder

So we go with her and in my car okay

It's very nice to meet you

Is that comfortable

The massacre on the witness took place on September 9th

1941

Not in the dark of a large Forest

It's in the Open Fields in front of the house she lived in as a child

What happened on that day

Hey chill I put a day

They bought yesterday about to say that yeah yeah a lot of people being March down

And when did you see the first

People coming

Football

It was going to break

They heard the screaming

That smoke a cry and screaming

Come back we'll take

Proskiller insurance

Don't worry everybody

Was going to tell me I will shower with you man and then we heard the shooting

And who who was in the column

Yahoo news

Don't you forget

Opportunity

Well very good and children will be or being shot in

And when you heard the shots you realize what was happening

You'll give us that give give a circus

Couldn't get me I'll go to the destination

Yeah it's about

I just passed this might in my head

This is butramonis

What most of the victims lived

It's historic heart lies empty

Because that September Day

740 Jews

80% of the town's population

Were murdered

The question is

Who buy

The killers were listening killer squad from alito's

Coming to get rid of the juice

So we talking about lithuanians killing yes of the living room

But those the policeman and the partisans were neighbors of the Jew

And the whole process throughout has been managed by these people's Neighbors

Another town nearby

And they are the ones who do the shooting they're the ones with their fingers on the tree

The neighbors are taking the propert

That's quite a thought isn't it

And then they move into the houses around here presumably they take over the town and all the Jews are gone

In one night

In one night

It's clear that the Holocaust here was much more than just a series of spontaneous Acts

It was rapidly evolving into organized ethnic cleansing on a massive scale

In Elite's Forest Harry and Phil think they may have stumbled on the biggest Mass grave

I've ever seen

I mean obviously we're walking at a lower area that has

Went to our left amount of stuff

I mean

Human

Bill

Most

Wow human belt

I mean I mean small copper but I mean the idea

That where you are was where the trench would be

And here you would be lining up people

Being shot falling into the transfer you are

Then burying

With that settlement that you have

And then continuing that along here

Potentially months

This is a trench we could have thousands of people

This is one that is is not

The discovery

Is the result of resolute detective work

Because the trench is nowhere near any of the Holocaust monuments

So we checked out the area of the monument

All the data indicated really that there was nothing there

So I went back to the air photos to try to find something

That potentially fit

A large number of bodies could be buried

And

This is a 1944 luftwaffe air photographs of this area

And if we zoom in

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

And this particular road is essentially a road to nowhere

So ride the guys in the middle of a forest

And stop

I

Yes I would agree with that

But there is testimony of a family member soon after

Her father and brother were murdered

A visiting this site

And seeing

The evidence of trenches that were so fresh that they were staying with blood

So that's what's at the end of the road yes

That's what prompted us

Start the look

In this particular area

Going on this and then one person will be moving the line

I'm in a pond close inspection we found a series of trenches

Leading up to at least visually

Potentially the largest Trench

This may be a mass grave or series of mass Graves

There are tens of thousand

The people bar

The evidence is compelling

But it's only circumstantial

The only way they can be sure they found a mass burial

Is to look beneath the surface

Cuz they did so effectively at Leo pay

So what we've done at this site is we started collecting a grid with ground penetrating radar

And I'll show you a time slice as we go down into the sub

And remarkably you know this we never know what we're going to get

We see this feature right here

This is what we are interpreting as a burial

Cuz that's a normal list within the rest of this here it's really something distincts right now

And so now we can start calculating

The dimensions of a trench

And it's not just here and goes all the way up

Where this linear feature goes

And goes all the way down

Right downstairs and it does a right hand turn down there

And there's

I

We can't even start doing the calculations we were just looking at the data right now

This is a large feature

And then we have seven to four seven to 11 M here

Fun on the tapes here but take a look

All the trees have been taken out at 7 m

And they're gone all the way to 11 m

All the way down this

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

The clearly

Something

Has happened to this earth something has disrupted

The continuity of this space

When when we take I mean I just take a look out here we thought there was going to be nothing out here

And we see some you know linear features and things like that

I you know I'm shocked when I walk around now I'm looking at things and it's like

Potentially we are sitting on thousands

Of executed Jews at this

We could work here for years and years is one more and just find more yeah yeah

Experience of being here today has been a really Stark

Reminder of the point about taking

Jewish individual

Into a song like this

I murdered him

When the Nazis come into

These territories they

And various different ways and embarrassed different to capacities

Different people who prepared

To support it

Allow it to happen but sometimes to become directly

Involved

To become the people who

The people

With that fingers on the trig

It's so important to remember

Did the Nazis were at the center of this

But they didn't act alone

They required

The active participation of

Hundreds of thousands of people they couldn't have done it

Without that

Like a lot of formerly occupied Eastern European nations

Molding with you idea has a history problem

Because the truth of its role in the Holocaust

He's finally coming out of the ground

And it's being obliged to face up to it by writers

Like roots of anagator

Another 50

The people who come to

Rachel this is something that you've gone to Great Lengths to investigate

What happens when you did that

Michael about the color girls was published

It became a bestseller but the action was very violent

Some people accepted it but majority of my nation didn't accept

And I became

Like any of the country because I was like defaming my own people

And they called me a Jewish w****

So and then

You know people were attacking me and

Spitting at me on the street

I

And in the long run I had to leave the country for a while until they forgive not forgive me but forgive me

So speaking out came a great personal cost to you

I don't regret

Yes you did but I don't

I don't know that it will be such a violet direction that would have done it anyway

Because I spoke for the victims this is my Army

$200,000 people this is Miami they gave me a lot of

And if you publish the book today

Do you think you would get the same reaction

They won't be put in published

And nobody asked me nobody would write the book about the holoc

Because people know that you lose your friends

And you get you become a public en

So what is said when this comes up and conversation what is it what do you say

So they would say it wasn't us it wasn't us kind of

I mean

I told my friend that I'm coming to see the Germany with him with a BBC crew

And said

Are you going to tell the whole world again

And the same our country

And tell everybody that you know we kill the Jews and things kill the Jews

I said

Yes she said why

I said because they did

Bloody uneducated

Uneducated the school hasn't educated us our parents hasn't educate us

Grandparate to speak about

Who could

Ask about what

Moment Calico subject is closed

I don't know for how long

Years ago

Many lithuanians welcome the invading Nazis

For what seemed at the time to be a very sound reason

Because the Nazis

Will liberating them from communism the same nationalist response

Manifested across all the Baltic states

As well as large parts of Ukraine

What's the fire from Blue terrorist everywhere National

To find the Flames of anti-communism

And the Nazis pushed the myth of that communism

Has a Jewish conspiracy

Has Hitler's invasion of the USSR reached its fullest extent coercion

And complicity across territories under Nazi control

I love the SS to initiate nearly 2,000 atrocities across seven countries

From the Baltic

The Black Sea

Scaling up their murderous ambition in Village after Village

Town Off The Town

Has victim numbers grew

The SS developed a system for ensuring maximum efficiency

A minimal pan

It began with a calming ruse

Jews were told to assemble with money

Belongings

I'm warm clothing

So they waited patiently

Expecting to be deported

They will let away in groups

Often buy local police

To be shot

When the Germans took the Ukrainian capital

Keith in late September 1941

They claim their biggest Soviet City so far

With tens of thousands of Jews

And that says Commander

Friedrich yekel

So the chance to perfect mass murder

On a Monumental scale

He issued the standard order to the city's Jews to assemble

Then he had them at school today out of town by local police along this road to a

Continue to Deep

Half kilometer Long Ravine

Cool babinya

Here they were strip naked

Ready for the waiting guns

New Virginia

The account's plan was carefully engineered

Yet Dina prone to shaver

Survived it

That is difficult

Onion physical science

More beautiful

You're too supposed to hit

These are the belongings of those

Those who didn't Escape

On 29th and 30th September 1941

The accounts men shot 33,

771 men

Women

And children

700 people

An hour

For 2 days

Popping you was the biggest single Massacre of the Holocaust thus far

Yes it would become just one notable landmark

In a continental killing spree

By the end of 1941 over a million people have been killed under the hail of bullets that the Nazis and their

Operators are throwing

$25,000 murdered here in Riga

Murdered here in counter

In pain already

It means $30,

In Kiev 34,

Incoming expodolski we've got

$25,000 and down in Odessa we've got 30,000

Hundreds of thousands of Jews and thousands more between all of these places

It doesn't start as a plan of total Annihilation that's something evolves

It's part of these operations here

Well they've been able to do here

Conceptualizing something within there within their minds they hadn't previously anticipated in this way they can kill them they

Across the whole territory

But the largest number of Jews still alive here

In occupied pilot

The living in ghettos they're living in

Terrible conditions they suffered

Cooling later in this period

But there's been no Central plans for nihilate them until now

What changes the end of 1941

When the Nazi sit out to murder the millions of Jews languishing in their ghettos

They did not use millions of bullets

By the end of 194

After more than a million individual murders

My shooting

Had become unsustainable

And when we look at these photos

We start to understand why that is

Can see here

These young men

Effacing of the human beings

I'm killing them

Miss seeing

What are they doing

First hand

Face to face

I'm not sending us he's become really concerned about

The mental health of the people that are doing it

Never the people that have been killed

People that are doing it

They know

If that's something

Which

Is going to be impossible for them

To deal with they talk about it it's a burdening of the Soul

There's reports here of these soldiers getting nausea

Nervous tension during the massacres

In many cases Killers suffered vomiting attack

Will develop severe eczema or other psychosomatic disorders

You know that this this sense that

Did this

Generation will be corrupted

Forever

In the name of the re

The other big factor was location

Everything's happened so far everything that I've looked at

Has happened a long way from the heart of Germany it's in this kind of this wild East in the Nazi imagination

Different place with different things can happen different permissibility we see here

The absolutely Indescribable scene of Carnage and it's so public and it's so barbaric and it's completely

And even the Nazis

Finess

What kind of scene unconscionable

Killing

Punches of thousands millions of people is something they can accept

But from that perspective things develop

There are ways that it should be done

And this isn't

So they need to find a new means of mass murder

That can be scaled up

That can be

Efficient

That can be

Secret

And that can be

Civilized

In that

Much more closely aligned

This new Germany

The Hitler wants to create

One of the men's tossed with finding those new civilized ways of killing

Was an SS major

Could Herbert Langer

And this Forest

Called casimir's biscopy in the west of Poland

Is what language was given to use as a laboratory

The team of researchers from across Poland

Is attempting to find the evidence left behind by Lang as experiments

Traces of mass Graves can be seen in the Nazis own aerial photographs

Elvis crematorium

Hopes that will help locate extraordinary events described

And I witness testimony

This is part of our team

Hello Sebastian University

And Simone hello hello

Nice to meet you nice to meet you too thank you

Say what if we

Found here

Okay

That this is this depression here

This this message and

It could be the Musgrave we are looking for

Just where I was standing now

From one perspective it can look like just a regular mask Gray from the water time

However

We know from a single testimony we have

Of a pre-work vet polish vet

Who was brought here as a prisoner political prisoner he was brought here with the other posts

Forced to assist the Germans

In killing a Jewish people from a neighboring

Ghett

So people were brought in cards here alive

The pits were already

Waiting for them

They were not shot

They were just

They were just covered with

Quick lime

And burned inside the pit

Incident Doug p

Quit climb into the pit

Brought containers with water

Brought people inside brought containers with water and put

The water inside

What

What made the quick line to

Re

Chemically boil

Repeat boiling people

Inside

And this is what we know from this

Testimony of a Polish that he was here for from the very

Beginning Until the End first afterwards with other post

To bury the victims

Right where we are here there was a

How much people

Boil the

Correct

Do you know how long it took

According to some cabbage several hours

We think

That

Experimental killing side here

Why was Thunder yeah

They were just trying out

Different ways he has different type of

Killing

It's believed Langer killed 3,000 Jews here in a series of Trials

Which included not just lime pits

But Mobile Gas fans

It was just a pure technical like a rehearsal

Which method would be the most effective efficient

As if the Nazis were just getting ready for the big task that was ahead

Meaning killing the European jewelry

Clearly

Does an intention is being

Consolidated from within the heart of the Nazi

Hierarchino from Hitler from the top down there's this idea of this intention is becoming more and more and more

Determined towards

Final Solution which is about

Complete Annihilation but of course

As an intention

That is meaningless without the means of achieving it and that's what we see the actual practical means of achieving

They are drawing conclusions

Lime is expensive

Gas in Vegas was also inconvenient

So it just drives longer to a natural conclusion that it doesn't work we need to think about

About something else

Took my experimentation but this is

The people that have been experimental done are real

People I mean yes

How to ask his team continues to search the forest for more of Langer's victims

The longer himself concluded that the

Mom said he was looking for did not lie in forests he'd found the most

Most efficient killing agent was gas but it needed to be used in a completely different location

Well like I

Realized in fact was that the future of mass murder lay in the past

In an old SS prison called 47

Hey in 1939

Langa have been part of a project called action T4

T4 was created to purge the Third Reich of the disabled

For the Nazis called

I'm worthy of life

And the key to t4's efficiency Lang a recall

Had been to bring the victims to the means of killing

Inside a special secure

Facility

In this quiet old

Langer had improvised A Whole New Concept in mass murder

Well maybe the world's first gas chamber

People will end up here

The doors were close behind them

When they're ruling clay was put around the edges outside to see it off

And then chips will put through openings in the door

Three days Chiefs carbon monoxide was pumped

Concealed bottles

People would wait outside

When there was no more noise inside

Because I knew that when he was dead

For the end of 1941 has become clear the Hitler's ambition

Is to murder every single Jew across not your partner Nazi Allied Europe and in

To do that

He needs the necessary scale

It need

Development and it's the development of our idea

Which is what leads us

So these ends

Contain ashes

Different camps across Europe

Olympic confronted Me is from helmet

Tell him that is where her Belanger went directly from here and it became the first death camp

I'm from not a network was develops the led to the murder of millions of people

And it'll started

From early 1942

Millions of Jews were taken from all across Nazi occupied Europe and sent to EXT

Elimination camps

Like this one to become no more than us

A memory it took just

Months to get here from the first bullet fired in the East how did that happen

Of course there was Hitler's poison

This ideology

But it needed more than ideology that needed

Tons of thousands of ordinary people to portray a neighbor

Will turn their backs and say nothing

To help round up and Rob to sign an order pull

Trigger or open a valve

To see others

The sufficiently different from them

To be killed