April 12, 1987 –
The fact based WWII drama Escape from Sobibor, starring Alan Arkin, Joanna Pacula, Rutger Hauer, Hartmut Becker, Jack Shepherd, and Simon Gregor, aired on CBS TV on this date.
On October 14, 1943, members of the Sobibor camp’s underground resistance killed 11 German SS-Totenkopfverbände officers and a number of Sonderdienst Ukrainian and Volksdeutsche guards. Of the 600 inmates in the camp, roughly 300 escaped, although all but 50 to 70 were later re-captured and killed. After the escape, the SS Chief, Heinrich Himmler, ordered the death camp closed. It was dismantled, bulldozed under the earth and planted over with trees to cover it up.
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