During the final phase of the Holocaust , the SS-WVHA 's economic department under Oswald Pohl had given up the idea of a " reservation " , partly due to the Soviet counter-offensive and the Jewish revolts . The SS proceeded to shut down the '' Ostindustrie '' entirely in order to prevent further unrest . On 3 November 1943 , all sub-camps of the Majdanek death camp were liquidated in '' Aktion Erntefest '' , the single largest German massacre of Jews in the entire war , with approximately 43,000 victims across District Lublin fatally shot in fake anti-aircraft trenches by the Reserve Police Battalion 101 ( a unit of the German Order Police ) , augmented by a squad of '' Hiwis '' called " Trawniki men " . Többens was captured in Austria by the Americans in 1946 . He escaped from a train on the way to a trial in Poland and settled under an assumed name in Bavaria , where he founded a new business from his wartime profits . He revealed his identity in 1952 , and died in a car accident two years later
Aktion Erntefest
Aktion Erntefest
Többens and Schultz