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Sonderkommandos (German: [ˈzɔndɐkɔˌmando], lit. 'special unit') were work
units made up of
German ****
death camp prisoners. They were
composed of prisoners...
- The
Sonderkommando photographs are four
blurred photographs taken secretly in
August 1944
inside the
Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland...
- sub-units,
known as SS-
Sonderkommandos, to
carry out
special tasks,
including large-scale
murder operations. The use of SS-
Sonderkommandos was widespread. According...
- The
Sonderkommando revolt in
Auschwitz occurred on 7
October 1944, when a
large group of
Sonderkommando members in the
crematoria area of
Birkenau camp...
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Sonderkommando ("special unit" in German) most
commonly refers to the
Sonderkommandos in **** Germany's
extermination camps but may also
refer to: Sonderkommando...
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prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and on 7
October 1944, two
Sonderkommando units,
consisting of
prisoners who
operated the gas chambers, launched...
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Sonderkommando Blaich (Special
Command Blaich) was a
German unit
consisting of a
Heinkel He 111H
medium bomber supported by an
Italian Savoia-Marchetti...
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company of Waffen-SS
attached to
Einsatzgruppe C
under Rasch,
members of
Sonderkommando 4a
under SS-Obergruppenführer
Friedrich Jeckeln, and some Ukrainian...
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under the
control of the SS. Accordingly, the unit name was
changed to
Sonderkommando Dirlewanger ("Special Unit Dirlewanger"). As the unit
strength grew...
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Sonderkommando "Elbe" was the name of a
World War II
Luftwaffe task
force ****igned to
bring down
heavy bombers by
ramming them in mid-air. Its sole mission...
