As a result of the 1944 escape from Treblinka, the Commandant of another death camp, Sobibor, vowed (actually threatened) that his camp would never be the same. Their only hope was to flee, but how? On October 14, 1943, the camp's subterranean resistance killed eleven German officials and a few Ukrainian guards. Approximately 300 of the 600 inmates escaped, although most were recaptured and executed subsequently. The Nazis had to close the extermination camp, dismantle it, and plant a forest.
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As a result of the 1944 escape from Treblinka, the Commandant of another death camp, Sobibor, vowed (actually threatened) that his camp would never be the same. Their only hope was to flee, but how? On October 14, 1943, the camp's subterranean resistance killed eleven German officials and a few Ukrainian guards. Approximately 300 of the 600 inmates escaped, although most were recaptured and executed subsequently. The Nazis had to close the extermination camp, dismantle it, and plant a forest.
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