Treblinka alone yielded enormous plunder in 10 months of extermination

Evidence

Simon Wiesenthal has noted that in 10 months, between 1942 and 1943, Germans transported out of the Treblinka death camp alone 25 railway wagons of women’s hair, nearly half a million gold watches, 160 tons of gold wedding rings, and many thousands of diamond carats. — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 850

Categorization

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