Adam Czerniaków wrote in his diary on 22 July 1942 ( he committed suicide the next day ) : Höfle also played a key role in the Harvest Festival massacre of Jewish inmates of the various labour camps in the Lublin district in early November 1943 . Approximately 43,000 Jews were murdered during this operation which was the single largest German massacre of Jews in the entire war . Höfle rejoined Globocnik in Trieste , after various missions in the Netherlands and Belgium
Harvest Festival
Aktion Erntefest
Hermann Höfle