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1942–44 Nazi project to destroy evidence of war crimes in Poland
Sonderaktion 1005
Survivors of a Sonderkommando 1005 unit stand next to a mill used to crush bones at the Janowska concentration camp following its liberation in 1944.
Also known as
Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion
Location
German-occupied Europe
Participants
Germany
Organizations
Order Police battalions Sicherheitsdienst Trawnikis
Camp
Extermination camps Concentration camps Mass-killing sites in Central and Eastern Europe
Documentation
Nuremberg trials
Sonderaktion1005 (German pronunciation:[zɔndɐakt͡sjoːnaɪ̯ntaʊ̯zəntfʏnf], 'Special Action 1005'), also called Aktion1005 or Enterdungsaktion (German pronunciation:[ɛntɐdʊŋsakt͡sjoːn], 'Exhumation Action'), was a top-secret Nazi operation conducted from June 1942 to late 1944. The goal of the project was to hide or destroy any evidence of the mass murder that had taken place under Operation Reinhard, the attempted (and largely
successful)[1] extermination of all Jews in the General Government occupied zone of Poland. Groups of Sonderkommando prisoners, officially called Leichenkommandos ("corpse units"), were forced to exhume mass graves and burn the bodies; inmates were often put in chains to prevent them from escaping.
The project was put in place to destroy evidence of the genocide that had been committed by the Order Police battalions and Einsatzgruppen, the German death squads who murdered millions, including more than 1 million Jews, Roma and Slavs. The Aktion was overseen by selected squads of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) and the uniformed Order Police.
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Sonderaktion1005 (German pronunciation: [zɔndɐakt͡sjoːn aɪ̯ntaʊ̯zəntfʏnf], 'Special Action 1005'), also called Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion (German...
open-air pyres to hide the evidence of genocide in what became known as Sonderaktion1005. The six camps considered to be purely for extermination were Chełmno...
chambers for the extermination camps. From late 1942 onwards, he led Sonderaktion1005, wherein millions of bodies were exhumed at sites across Eastern Europe...
evidence of mass murder being largely destroyed in the Nazi program of Sonderaktion1005. Estimates put the total number of prisoners who passed through the...
evidence was deliberately destroyed by the perpetrators, such as in Sonderaktion1005, in an attempt to conceal their crimes. Considered to have been the...
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Operation Reinhard, the Nazis implemented the secret Sonderaktion1005, also called Aktion 1005 or Enterdungsaktion ("exhumation action"). The operation...
for a mass-murder operation. Aktion 1005 – ('Action 1005'), also called the Sonderaktion1005 ('special action 1005') or Enterdungsaktion ('exhuming action')...
during Aktion Erntefest. Their exhumed bodies were incinerated in Sonderaktion1005 by Sonderkommandos from Milejów who in turn were executed on site...
Austria victim theory Clean Wehrmacht Rommel / Speer myth Italiani brava gente Trivialization Double genocide theory Vichy syndrome Sonderaktion1005...
central Ukraine, June 1941–13 January 1942 (1/5), commander of the Sonderaktion1005 project Responsible for the Babi Yar and Bila Tserkva massacres Executed...
subject to solitary confinement if they helped. During the Sonderkommando 1005 exhumations, a group of prisoners secretly armed themselves with tools and...
on long open-air pyres, part of the country-wide plan known as the Sonderaktion1005. Bone fragments were pulverised and mixed with the ashes to hide the...
Austria victim theory Clean Wehrmacht Rommel / Speer myth Italiani brava gente Trivialization Double genocide theory Vichy syndrome Sonderaktion1005...
through Heinrich Mueller, Chief of the Gestapo, ordered Paul Blobel in Sonderaktion1005 to remove all traces of the mass executions in the East carried out...
inmates were executed.[citation needed] Just like the Nazis with their Sonderaktion1005, toward the end of the war the Ustashe sought to destroy evidence...
Sonderaktion1005 was a Nazi project with the explicit goal of hiding or destroying any evidence of the mass murder committed under Operation Reinhard...
murdered there. Roschmann participated in the efforts of Sonderkommando 1005 to conceal the evidence of the Nazi crimes in Latvia by exhuming and burning...
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