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Word: sonderkom (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rnberg record, the world got one more close-up glimpse of the Nazi nightmare. SS Lieut. General Gottlob Berger, 52, one of the few men Himmler ever called by his first name (translated it means "Praise God"), had set up the dreaded SS Sonderkommando units. One Sonderkom-mando, one of his own officers had testified, used to pick out the prettiest Jewish girls. "They stripped them," he recounted, "injecting them with strychnine, and watched them die." The bodies, said the witness, were then boiled into soap. "Praise God" got 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR CRIMES: Finis | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

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