Editing Jasenovac concentration camp (section)

===Burning of corpses===

Just like the Nazis with their [[Sonderaktion 1005]], toward the end of the war the Ustashe sought to destroy evidence of their crimes at Jasenovac.{{sfn|Goldstein|2018|p=603}} Among the few surviving inmates of the camp, at least four – Miroslav Trautman, Karl Weiss, Walter Grünn and Egon Berger – all testified that the Ustashe dug up and burned corpses at Jasenovac.<ref name="Hutinec">{{cite web |last1=Hutinec |first1=Goran |title=Revizionistički pamflet Igora Vukića o kozaračkoj djeci (3) |url=http://www.forum.tm/vijesti/revizionisticki-pamflet-igora-vukica-o-kozarackoj-djeci-3-6039 |website=forum.tm |date=26 August 2017 |access-date=2020-03-06 |archive-date=2020-02-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200220013215/http://www.forum.tm/vijesti/revizionisticki-pamflet-igora-vukica-o-kozarackoj-djeci-3-6039 |url-status=live }}</ref> Walter Grünn testified that: "All the oil and beams from the camp were taken to Gradina [one of the main killing fields at Jasenovac]. From these beams, roasts were erected, on which the dug-up bodies were thrown, covered with oil and then burned".<ref name="Hutinec" /> The Jasenovac camp commanders, [[Miroslav Filipović]] and [[Ljubo Miloš]] both confirmed that the Ustashe gave the command to completely destroy all evidence of the mass graves at Jasenovac,{{sfn|Goldstein|2018|p=602}} while Miloš also described the process: "A strong guard was set up around the sites, and then healthy inmates were brought in from the camps, who dug up the corpses and stacked them in one particular location and burned them completely with gasoline or oil".<ref name="Hutinec" />

This mass burning of corpses was confirmed by a post-war commission, which performed selective excavations at Jasenovac, and in most places found "ashes and burnt remains of bones", although they also managed to find some intact mass graves, including one with 189 corpses, most with smashed skulls, among them 51 children below age 14.<ref name="Hutinec" />