L’Aktion Reinhardt en Galicie orientale : À la lecture des rapports de commissions d’enquête soviétiques

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Aktion Reinhardt in Eastern Galicia from the Reading of Reports of the Soviet Extraordinary State CommissionThe so-called “Extraordinary State Commission for ascertaining and investigating crimes perpetrated by the German-Fascist invaders and their accomplices” was created by the Soviet Government on November 2, 1942 for the primary purpose to collect as many as possible evidence against the Axis occupiers in anticipation of the expected after war trials. As it worked quickly after the release of Soviet territories, the Soviet Investigation Commission established over 4 million official acts and identified more than 150,000 criminals essentially collected through hearings in all municipalities. The genocide of the Jews from the Soviet Union is unreservedly discussed in the reports and works in Eastern Galicia, populated at the end of 1939 more than half a million Jews, helped to write the first history of the crime committed in the region attached to the General Government of Poland in 1941. Concerned by the Aktion Reinhardt and located near the center of Belzec, the territory of Eastern Galicia was covered by pits where the majority of Jews were executed by shootings. Survivors tell of the ghettos and their liquidations, trains to Belzec, but also the aid sometimes received from people or acts of resistance.