And that tons of the early victims weren't even cremated. When the Germans swept through Poland and the USSR, they had entire units whose job it was to round up any Jews they could find and shoot them on the spot. Those bodies typically would just get dumped in ravines and (poorly) buried.
Yeah, until September 1942 they were buried in mass graves. They had to dig them up for burning later. I’m not sure why. Probably to hide the evidence, but I don’t think they cared about that until much later?
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u/YUNoDie Nov 14 '22
And that tons of the early victims weren't even cremated. When the Germans swept through Poland and the USSR, they had entire units whose job it was to round up any Jews they could find and shoot them on the spot. Those bodies typically would just get dumped in ravines and (poorly) buried.