A tin train slowly stopped at Sobibor, and the voice of welcome to Sobibor came from the radio. But when the Jews in charge of the reception opened the carriage, they found that inside the carriage were hundreds of Jewish corpses, and this was just the tip of the iceberg of the Sobibor concentration camp.
In March 1943, the Construction of the Sobiburg concentration camp was completed, and the Nazi Germans greeted the first experiencers at the gate. When the Jews got off the train and thought they had arrived at the transit station, they did not know that they had reached the end of their lives. Under the arrangement of the German officers, the Jews were divided into three parts.
Men over the age of 14 were assigned to the Labour Unit to work as coolies. Some of the craftsmen were assigned to work as tailors or jewelers, and the remaining old, sick and disabled were asked by the German officers to go to the shower room to take a bath, promising to let them rest afterwards. But when they stripped naked and went to the so-called shower room, the German soldiers locked the door directly, and then white smoke began to erupt from the shower, and the smoke absorbers quickly reacted adversely and stopped breathing after a few minutes, and then their bodies were transported to an incinerator and eventually buried under the loess.
In a sense, the Germans did not renege on their word, they did give the Jews a good rest, but they could never wake up again. After killing these surplus Jews, the Germans took their valuable things for themselves, gold and silver jewelry and jewelry and rings, all of which became the private property of the Germans.
The Jews who were in charge of picking and arranging the jewelry, when they saw these things, instantly knew the end of their compatriots. In order to survive, several men quietly cut the barbed wire and tried to slip away, but where is the concentration camp that can go?
Several people who did not know the situation soon stepped on the mines outside the concentration camp, and the Germans, alarmed by the explosions, quickly raised their machine guns to counterattack, and most of the escapees died in the strafing of machine guns and the explosion of mines. The only remaining teenager was also shot in the chest by a German soldier while climbing a hill, and his escape plan failed.
He warmly entertained a group of unruly guests, which made the Germans very sad. Let the guests understand the rules, the Germans decided to play a fun game with them, the Germans randomly selected from among the Jews and the number of escapees equal to the number of escapees, do not complain that all this is your own fault.
In order to better manage this group of Jews, and at the same time to create internal contradictions for them, the officers selected several Jewish overseers from among the Jews, the so-called Jews, and asked them to assist them in their own administration of the Jews. Most of these overseers are traitors and seek glory, but some of them are to help their compatriots to facilitate.
With the help of these overseers, for a long time the Jews were quite obedient, and sometimes the German army would show mercy and invite some reliable Jews to drink, but the Jews had their own faith and politely refused. Have faith? Why do you have faith other than the Fuehrer? To punish this heretic, the officer made him take off his pants in public and smoked him with a belt for one night.
Among the Jews was a leader of the rebel army from the Soviet Union, his name was Sasha. For this person with experience in the uprising, the officer paid special attention to him, on this day the officer found Sasha and asked him to split the stumps of a large tree in 5 minutes, if he refused or timed out, then he would execute the person with the number 10 at the scene, Sasha had no choice but to cut down the tree, and it took 4 and a half minutes to split the stumps.
The officers praised Sasha's ability and sent several overseers that night to beat Sasha to death. On this day, the train carried the second group of Jews to Sobibor, and the horn still played a broadcast welcoming to Sobibor, but when the door of the container was opened, what came into view was the corpses that had been piled up randomly, and this scene made the other Jews tremble and tremble, and there was a young man in the corpse pile who still had a breath, but he was shot in the head by the Germans just about what he wanted to say, sorry to be careless.
The brutality of the Nazis gave the Jews the idea of rebellion, and several Jews, led by Sasha, gathered to discuss how to kill the Nazi officers in the concentration camp and then lead all the Jews to flee, but suddenly there was a warning outside that a German army had arrived nearby and they were going to briefly stay in Sobiburg. This force was heavily armed, and there was no chance of victory in the face of them Sasha and others, and their plan could only be postponed.
That night, in order to give the brothers a wind and dust, the officers of the concentration camp held a grand banquet. At the banquet, the Germans laughed and drank, and in order to enjoy themselves, they planned that the young Jews would pull the cart, and if anyone was tired and could not run, they would shoot and replace it with a new one.
An officer asked a child to polish the shoes of the dead, and he kept humiliating and cursing the Jews in his mouth, listening to the vicious curses of his compatriots against the Jews. Another officer decided to be angry with him, and he called a Jew to pour fine wine on him, burning the Jew's cry of pain, but the Germans watched with gusto.
At the climax of the banquet, the officers organized a rickshaw pulling contest, so that the Jews dragged the officers to a race, the winning Jews could rest, and the losers could get a bullet, so the officers reveled all night. When the Germans dispersed, only the bodies of Jews remained on the ground.
Early the next morning, the German troops stationed there were preparing to withdraw, and some of the officers went to see them off. Sasha intends to seize the opportunity by asking a boy who is trusted by the Germans to take the Germans to the tailor's room to try on clothes. The officer didn't think much of it and went in while he was trying on clothes when a Jew picked up an iron plate and smashed him to death.
When the plan was successful, they repeated the trick, asked another officer to try on clothes and killed him in the same way. In this way, the Jews killed 4 officers and distributed their weapons to others, and with weapons they had the capital to fight the Germans. Sasha immediately gathered his Jews and looked at the surrounding Jews, the heads of the other areas were gone, and the last officer began to be suspicious.
Just as he was about to question the Jews, a bullet hit him in the shoulder, and he leaned against the shelf in pain. Aware of the human rebellion, the sentry immediately strafed the location where the gunshots were fired, and seeing that there was an accident, Sasha and the others could not take care of so much, and immediately shouted for the crowd to resist. Watching the Jews all begin to flee, the machine gunners turned around and strafed the crowd, and the dense crowd died in large numbers under the strafing of the machine guns.
But there were still many people who escaped on the corpses of their compatriots, their former servants and successors who used their flesh and blood to tear down the barbed wire, they crossed the minefield and ran towards the freedom of their dreams, and eventually 300 of the 14,000 Jews managed to escape the concentration camp. Some of these people joined the local resistance groups, and some began their own new lives, but many more were recaptured and returned to concentration camps, reduced to poison gas experiments by the Germans, and only 50 Jews survived to the end.
The film "Sobibor", like "Escape from Sobibor" in 1987, is based on real historical events. The October Uprising in Sobibor, the film is much inferior in plot compared to the work of 31 years ago. However, it is far more important to portray the life of the concentration camp than to tell the events of the October Uprising, but more like a film exposing the cruelty of the Nazi concentration camps.