Word: sonderkommando
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...shot, hanged or beaten to death. Steiner interviewed 15 of the 40 survivors of Treblinka now living in Israel, used fictional techniques to reconstruct the life and sudden death of the in- mates. The book's high point is the revolt, on Aug. 2, 1943, of the Jewish Sonderkommando, the laborers detailed to wrench gold teeth from corpses and bury the dead. With smuggled arms, the Jews killed 20 of their captors. Some 300 prisoners escaped from the camp, but all but 40 of them were eventually hunted down and executed...
...wrote finis to the Nürnberg 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...
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