Operation Reinhard:
Preparations for Operation Reinhard began with the appointment of
Globocnik and Höfle
(see Administration, below) to
oversee it. Globocnik was given near-unlimited police power in the Lublin
district of the General Government area of Poland, and Höfle given
responsibility for organization and manpower as his Chief of Operations.
(See
Yad_Vashem yvs16.01)
Three camps,
Belzec,
Sobibor, and
Treblinka, were established. They had
to be close to railways, and located in isolated areas, as far as possible
from population centers, so their grisly work would not attract unwanted
attention. In addition, in order to lend a semblence of credance to the
cover being used--that the Jews were being transferred to work
"somewhere in the east" in occupied Soviet territory--the camps
had to be near the eastern border of the Government General.
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