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At first the camp was only given 2 vans but later on they got 3 more so they could kill a greater number of people faster.

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Where "Chelmno extermination camp" comes from

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Where "Chelmno extermination camp" comes from

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It is likely the name came from the investigations of German crimes after the war ended.

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Nazis exclusively called it Kulmhof as Chelmo is just the town it was built in.

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Jews were killed so fast to make room for Lebensraum.

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SS would kill Sonderkommando after a while and add new members to it.

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German SS selected Jewish prisoners to join this. The job of this was to burn bodies so people in surrounding villages didn't smell dead bodies.

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After the war many gas van drivers and camp leaders had to testify in court.

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A testimony about deportation from Radziejów to Chełmno by Joyce Wagner.

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Joyce Wagner - testifies about the deportation from Radziejów to Chełmno in April 1942

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A group 80 Jewish people were forced to exhume and cremate any corpses from the mass graves then they were killed after.

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Only 7 Jewish people are known to have escaped from Chelmno all worked in the burial detachment.

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They went on from December, 1941 to March, 1943. They restarted for a brief period in June to July 1944.

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Building used to store belonging taken from Jewish people

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Building used to store belonging taken from Jewish people

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After the trucks were full they would seal the doors and then attach a tube to the exhaust pipe and put it in the truck with the Jewish people and start the engine.

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They told the Jews that they were going to work in Germany and that they needed to take a shower first.

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The trucks that transported the Jewish people there could hold 50-70 people.

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The SS and the police started killing operations on December 8, 1941.

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Picture of Nazi soldiers during a deportation to Chelmno

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Picture of Nazi soldiers during a deportation to Chelmno

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The Chelmno Concentration Camp was the first stationary facility where poison gas was used for mass murder of the Jews.

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It was made to annihilate the Jewish population of Wartheland including people from the Lodz ghetto.

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https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/chelmno, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7Vh8h92vhk, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che%C5%82mno_extermination_camp