JWST 240 Chapter reading: Reading Account of the Holocaust Mass Shooting
Document Summary
As well as the use of gas, mass shootings of unarmed civilians were also used during the holocaust. This is a well organized procedure for mass shooting that the elite ss soldiers had developed by 1942. Hermann frederich graebe made the following declaration: From september 1941 to january 1944 he was the director and chief engineer of the sdolbunow branch. Under the terms of a contract within the army construction services, the company was to build grain warehouses on the old dubno airfield in the. On october 5, 1942 he visited the construction offices in dubno and his foreman told him that some dubno jews had been shot near the building in three huge ditches around 30m long and 3m deep. The number of people killed daily was about 1,500 and 5,000 jews that lived in dubno before the pogrom were marked to die. He went to the work area and saw great mounds of earth.