men trained virtually all were soviet pows they were also mostly sadists anti-semites or psychopaths out to save their own skins volunteering to become a trawnicky man didn't just mean taking on some light duties for extra rations it meant actively taking part in the final solution from their training camp tronicki men were dispatched to ghettos and extermination camps like sobabor and belzetz ordered to help mass murder jews ivan though would be sent to one of the most notorious of all treblinka after auschwitz no other nazi camp killed so many jews as treblinka nearly NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN people including thousands of roma died within its walls only NUMBER_TOKEN inmates are known to have survived and ivan would have the distinction of making this hell so so much worse later described as a tall powerfully built ukrainian in his mid-twenties the ivan of treblinka was said to look remarkably like ivan demyanjuk like demanuk he had a simple gentle air about him survivors remembered his kind blue eyes almost as much as they remembered his sadism as jewish victims were taken off the trains and herded naked to the gas chambers ivan would randomly pick out victims laughing and joking as he pulled them to one side he'd gouge out eyes or chop off ears or noses with a sword that he carried other times it beat people to death with a metal bar or maybe lash out at the running crowd with his sword seeing if he couldn't slice open a passing belly this is just the stuff that we feel comfortable discussing although we're not sure comfort is the right word here there's eyewitness testimony i've been doing far far worse things things will leave up to you to research by yourself if you want nightmares finally once treblinka's victims had been loaded into the NUMBER_TOKEN square meter gas chamber ivan with his mechanic's knowledge of engines would turn on the motor that pumped carbon monoxide inside at the height of the holocaust he was capable of working so fast that some NUMBER_TOKEN could be exterminated in just NUMBER_TOKEN minutes perhaps it's little surprise that he soon earned his nickname one that would become a stain on john de januic's fortunes in the decades to come ivan grozny russian for ivan the terrible and just before we get into the rest of today's video a quick word from today's wonderful sponsor squarespace if you think about it this really does seem to be the age of creation everyone is out there making a youtube channel or a blog or a web store stuff like that you've either got a great idea yourself or you know someone who has one and when it's time to move that project from your head onto the screen in front of you that's where squarespace comes in maybe the hands-on type with lots of opinions and ideas about what exactly your website should look like if so very cool squarespace has all of the customization options that you could ever want and there's no updates no patches no technical nonsense to complicate life or maybe you just need something functional something that works with minimal thought that's what i went for so you can just focus on the content and not the coat of paint in that case pick one
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