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Paul Blobel è stato un militare e criminale di guerra tedesco, ufficiale delle SS con il grado di Standartenführer e membro dell'SD, comandante dell'Einsatzgruppe C. Nato a Potsdam, partecipò alla Prima guerra mondiale distinguendosi in varie azioni e venendo decorato con la Croce di Ferro di prima classe. Al termine del conflitto si iscrisse alla facoltà di architettura, esercitando la professione dal 1924 al 1931, ma in seguito alla crisi economica degli anni '20 e la perdita del lavoro, si iscrisse al Partito nazista e nelle SS.

Durante l'Operazione Barbarossa, fu posto a capo del Sonderkommando 4a dell'Einsatzgruppe C attivo in Ucraina: il suo compito consisteva nel liquidare i dissidenti politici e gli ebrei. Blobel fu il principale responsabile del massacro di Babi Yar, presso Kiev. Per questo, Himmler lo fece Maggiore delle SS. Quando si spostò a Poltava, il Sonderkommando 4a disponeva anche di due Gaswagen.

Sven Hassel prende Paul Blobel come emblema dell'apparato Einsatzgruppen, e parla di un aspetto meno considerato dell'attività del Sonderkommando 4a: non sterminava solo gli ebrei dei centri abitati, bensì evacuava e incendiava le fattorie.

Per problemi di coscienza, divenne preda della dissenteria, che tentava di curare bevendo schnaps, e per alcolismo, venne destituito dal suo comando il 13 gennaio 1942. Dal luglio 1942 al 1944 venne impegnato nella Sonderaktion 1005, ossia nell'eliminare tutte le tracce dei crimini di massa commessi dai tedeschi in Russia, però più fosse comuni furono tralasciate per mancanza di tempo.

Circa 59.018 esecuzioni vennero attribuite a Blobel dal Tribunale militare di Norimberga nel Processo agli Einsatzgruppen.

Condannato a morte, venne impiccato nella prigione di Landsberg l'8 giugno 1951. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Agosto 1894 – 7. Giugno 1951
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Paul Blobel: Frasi in inglese

“I have always used rather large execution squads, since I declined to use men who were specialists for shots in the neck (Genickschussspezialisten). Each squad shot for about one hour and was then replaced. The persons who still had to be shot were assembled near the place of the execution, and were guarded by members of those squads, which at the moment did not take part in the executions.”

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Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 157 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.

“The nervous strain was far heavier in the case of our men who carried out the executions than in that of their victims. From the psychological point of view they had a terrible time.”

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Quoted in "Echoes from the Holocaust: Philosophical Reflections on a Dark Time" - Page 26 - by Alan Rosenberg, Gerald Eugene Myers - History - 1988.

“After each firing order, when the shots were addressed, somebody looked at the victims, because the victims were then put into the grave when they did not fall into the grave themselves, and these tasks were in the field of tasks of the men of the individual Kommandos. The edge of the grave had to be cleaned, for instance. Two men who had spades dealt with this. They had to clean it up and then the next group was led there.”

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Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 158 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.

“The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German Army, were, in my opinion, completely in accordance with the Hague Convention.”

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Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 153 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.

“Our men taking part in the executions suffered more from nervous exhaustion than those who were to be shot.”

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Quoted in "Minister of death: the Adolf Eichmann story" - Page 131 - by Quentin James Reynolds, Zwy Aldouby - 1960.

“Every spy and saboteur knew what he had to expect when he was arrested.”

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Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 154 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.

“I would not say that they were happy. They knew what was going to happen to them. Of course, they were told what was going to happen to them, and they were resigned to their fate, and that is the strange thing about these people in the East.”

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Origine: Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 162 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.

“Out of the total number of the persons designated for the execution, fifteen men were led in each case to the brink of the mass grave where they had to kneel down, their faces turned towards the grave. When the men were ready for the execution one of my leaders who was in charge of this execution squad gave the order to shoot. Since they were kneeling on the brink of the mass grave, the victims fell, as a rule, at once into the mass grave.”

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Quoted in "The Eichmann Kommandos" - Page 157 - by Michael Angelo Musmanno - 1961.

“Here lie my thirty-thousand Jews.”

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at Babi Yar <br class="br">Origine: [Sereny, Gitta, Gitta Sereny, 1974, Into That Darkness: From Mercy Killing to Mass Murder, 2005 paperback, Pimlico, London, 978-0-7126-7447-8, 97 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ntgT48CY1wwC&amp;pg=PA97] Sereny also mentions the story in her 1995 biography of Albert Speer: [Sereny, Gitta, Albert Speer: His Battle With Truth, 1996 paperback, Picador, London, 978-0-330-34697-9, 272 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_Z3gKDdRgL8C&amp;lpg=PP1&amp;pg=PA272]

“I die in the faith of my people. May the German people be aware of its enemies!”

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Blobel's last words
Origine: [Time, Germany: Case Closed, 18 June 1951, http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,814963,00.html]

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