Talk:Sonderkommando
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The Jewish Sonderkommando in Sobibor neither lead the revolt nor did they take part in the outbreak on 14 October 1943. The organising secret committee had unsuccessfully tried to contact them in Camp III, the killing site. All the members of the Sonderkommando were shot on 15 October. I think it will be OK to delete the reference to Sobibor. P. Witte 09:45, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] dual usage of term
Sonderkommando were SS units which carried out exterminations, disposed of dead bodies and erased traces of mass murder. Jewish Sonderkommando units were made up of Jewish camp prisoners who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoria. One of these units staged an uprising in the Birkenau camp in 1941. Only at Auschwitz-Birkenau was the term used specifically regarding Jewish prisoners who carried out the functions of the gas chambers and crematoria. Other camps, such as Chlemno, the term Sonderkomando was used in relation to the SS gaurds overseeing the gas chambers and crematoria. They were also forces to rape their own kind.
[edit] "The Grey Zone"
"The Grey Zone" is the title of a chapter (about the sonderkommando) of Primo Levi's book, The Drowned and the Saved.
[edit] GWAR disambiguation
The "See also" link to GWAR points to the heavy metal band Gwar. I think a disambiguation is in order from someone who can explain the other meaning of GWAR that is implied in this article! --Theodore Kloba 19:56, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
- We need this info tout suite, I don't want people to think my hometown friends are related to Nazi death camps! Lachatdelarue (talk) 00:15, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Yeah I also don't think the link is appropriate, so I deleted it Jacib 00:23, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- I just found that an anon had added the link to Gwar. A google search shows up nothing relevant when searching for "gwar" and "nazi death camp". I guess this person thought they were being funny. Lachatdelarue (talk) 00:35, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
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- Actually, GWAR have a song named "Sonderkommando" (see here), hence the relevance. I agree with Jacib that it's inappropriate in this context. But in actuality there is an objective link between GWAR and Sonderkommando so I think we should reinstate the link with an explanatory comment. After all, it's not for us to say how appropriate a song is. --altmany 08:17, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
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- Thanks-- I didn't catch that in the Gwar article. It's relevant enough for me now that it's explained. --Theodore Kloba 13:55, Jun 21, 2005 (UTC)
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[edit] Names of surviving Sonderkommando?
Can you list the surviving member of the sonderkommando? Finally people who can go directly to the mass graves and say "dig here". I thought the day would never come. Thanks. -- posted by User:159.105.80.92 Dario Gabbai Frank Muller
