Paul Blobel
German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator
Died when: 56 years 299 days (681 months)Star Sign: Leo
Paul Blobel (13 August 1894 – 7 June 1951) was a German Sicherheitsdienst (SD) commander and convicted war criminal who played a leading role in the Holocaust.
He organised and executed the Babi Yar massacre, the largest massacre of the Second World War at Babi Yar ravine in September 1941, pioneered the use of the gas van, and, following re-assignment, developed the gas chambers for the extermination camps in occupied Poland.
From late 1942 onwards, he led Sonderaktion 1005, wherein millions of bodies were exhumed at the massacre sites and extermination camps across Eastern Europe in an effort to erase all evidence of the Holocaust and specifically of Operation Reinhard.
He was later convicted at the Einsatzgruppen Trial and was one of the few defendants to be executed.
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