The Butcher of Babi Yar: Einsatzgruppe Commander Paul Blobel
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He was trained to build — but became one of history’s greatest destroyers.
Paul Blobel, an SS officer and architect by profession, commanded the Nazi killing unit responsible for the massacre of over 33,000 Jews at Babi Yar in Kyiv.
Later, he led the secret “Operation 1005,” tasked with erasing the traces of Nazi mass murders by burning the corpses of their victims.
After the war, Blobel faced justice at the Einsatzgruppen Trial — and was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity.
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