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Sonderkommando - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sonderkommando Elbe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sonderkommando Elbe was the name of a World War II Luftwaffe task force assigned to bring down Allied bombers by ramming German aircraft into the bombers. Sonderkommando means special command, and ...
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Since a sonderkommando usually comprised men from incoming transports, their second task often consisted of disposing of the bodies of their own families. The sonderkommando did not participate in the actual killing -- that was carried out by the Nazis.
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The "Sonderkommando" ("Special commando") was a group of male inmates, who were already sentenced to death by committing them into that commando. Since the SS wanted to avoid witnesses of their horrible crimes, they also killed the members of the "Sonderkommando" at regular intervals.
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Sonderkommando: Definition and Pronunciation ... World & News ... Find definitions for:
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You are Josef Goldenberg, jewish, who were chosen for Auschwitz SonderKommando unit. You last job was in the Crematorium, where you were truck driver to drive the burned ashes for dumping in the river.
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Sonderkommando: Definition and Pronunciation ... Find definitions for: ... ; Pronunciation: (zon'dur-ku-man"dō; Ger. zôn'dur-kô-män'dô), [key]; —n.(in World War II Nazi concentration camps) a group of prisoners assigned to collect belongings and dispose of the bodies of other prisoners who had died or been killed.
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