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The Weimar Republic ended in 1933 when the Nazi party gained their power. Laws, education, the economy, and culture were all controlled by the Nazis.
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Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, which began WWII in Europe.
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The death camp known as Treblinka was completed in 1941. It was later referred to as Treblinka I and Treblinka II, with Treblinka II being the camp where the exterminations occurred. At Treblinka I was a forced labor camp.
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This was the German's plan to eliminate Jews. Their four main goals were to resettle Jews that currently occupied Poland, use them for their manual labor, take their personal property (Money, clothes, jewelry, etc), and to secure their assets (land, apartments, factories, etc).
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This map is more complex and contained more buildings than Rajchman describes in his book. To the left of the train platform stood several wooden structures which consisted of the kitchen and workshops. To the right was the sleeping quarters of the men and the SS. He described the "road" to the gas chambers to be filled with white sand and trees lining the path. He also explained the building that housed the gas chambers had roughly ten, while another building had three older chambers.
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In the early summer of 1943 there was talk about revolting because the camp was near completion and the Jews working the camp feared extermination. On August 2, 1943 the men gained access to guns and tried to escape. Many were shot and killed in their attempt but Rajchman managed to escape. He lived in the forest and asked others for help. Unlike many who escaped, he was one of the few who was not captured by the SS.
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The Nazis dismantled camp II in 1943. They tried to destroy any evidence of their crimes.
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They closed camp I in early 1944 due to the advancement of Allied troops.
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The Allies had made significant progress of discovering camps. The Nazis did what they could to destroy the evidence by demolishing the camps.
