Editing Belzec extermination camp (section)

===Camp guards===
Belzec camp guards included German ''[[Volksdeutsche]]'' and up to 120 former [[Trawniki men|Soviet prisoners of war]] (mostly Ukrainians) organised into four platoons.<ref name="arc-belzec"/><ref name="Reder">Reder, Rudolf, ''Belzec'', Państwowe Muzeum Oświęcim – Brzezinka, ed. by Franciszek Piper. {{ISBN|8390771535}}</ref> Following [[Operation Barbarossa]], all of them underwent special training at the [[Trawniki concentration camp#Key role of Trawniki men in Final Solution|Trawniki SS camp division]] before they were posted as "Hiwis" (German abbreviation for ''Hilfswilligen'', lit. [[Non-Germans in the German armed forces during World War II|"those willing to help"]]) in the concentration camps as guards and gas chamber operators.{{sfn|Arad|1999|pp=52, 177}} They provided the bulk of ''Wachmänner'' collaborators in all major killing sites of the [[Final Solution]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10007397 |author=USHMM |title=Holocaust Encyclopedia: Trawniki |publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC |year=2014}}</ref><ref name="Jabłoński">{{cite web |url=http://www.trawniki.hg.pl/traw/obozjab.html |title=Hitlerowski obóz w Trawnikach |work=The camp history |publisher=Trawniki official website |access-date=30 April 2013 |author=Mgr Stanisław Jabłoński (1927–2002) |language=pl}}</ref>