Paul Blobel. Part two. Commander of Sonderaktion 1005. Destruction of the corpses.

Paul Blobel was born in Potsdam on 13 August 1894, the first son of master carpenter Wilhelm Blobel and his wife Anna, née Tralst;. In 1899, the family moved to Remscheidt where he attended elementary school and a vocational training school where he stayed until 1912. He then completed an apprenticeship as a bricklayer and carpenter in 1912 and 1913 whilst attending a trade school in Wuppertal. He worked as a carpenter until the outbreak of the First World War. On 10 August 1914 he joined the army as a war volunteer at the recruit depot of the reserve battalion of Pioneer Regiment No. 24 (Cologne). On 27 November 1914 he was at the front line. .On 9 May 1918 he was taken to field hospital number 368, whether wounded or sick, the record does not say. On 28 November 1918 he was discharged from the military. After being demobbed, Blobel found it difficult to get work and lived in Remscheid. He went back to the trade school for the construction industry in Barmen again. In 1921 he found work