Extermination battalions or destruction battalions, colloquially istrebitels (истребители, "exterminators", "destroyers") abbreviated: istrebki (Russian)...
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civilians committed by destruction battalions, known as Kautla massacre. On 24 July 1941, an extermination battalion murdered Gustav and Rosalie Viljamaa...
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"Działania eksterminacyjne batalionu policyjnego 101" [Police Battalion 101 Extermination Actions]. WWW Holocaust Myoptimus Com (in Polish). Uniwersytet...
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Brothers prevented Soviet destruction of the town and trapped the extermination battalion chiefs and local communist administrators. On July 7, the Forest...
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was one of four extermination camps established as part of Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust. The extermination of Europe's Jews...
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established following a pilot project of mobile extermination conducted at Soldau and at Chełmno extermination camp that began operating in 1941 and used gas...
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of gas vans. The six extermination camps were Chełmno, Belzec, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Extermination through labour was also...
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Police Battalion 101 hand-in-hand with the Trawniki men from Ukraine. Auschwitz alone had enough capacity to fulfill the Nazis' remaining extermination needs...
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insurgents. Destruction battalions burnt down farms and some small boroughs. In turn, the members of the extermination battalions were at risk of reprisals...
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Azov Brigade (redirect from Azov Battalion (Ukraine))
Russia's Ministry of Defense claimed: "It was these Azov Battalion Nazis who had been exterminating civilian population in Donetsk and Luhansk republics,...
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Jews to extermination camps. Nazi authorities throughout Europe deported Jews to ghettos in Eastern Europe or most often directly to extermination camps...
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Extermination through labour (or "extermination through work", German: Vernichtung durch Arbeit) is a term that was adopted to describe forced labor in...
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Ordnungspolizei (redirect from Orpo battalion)
conquest and racial annihilation. Police troops were first formed into battalion-sized formations for the invasion of Poland, where they were deployed...
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Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118 (Ukrainian Schuma) was a Schutzmannschaft auxiliary police battalion (Schuma). The core of the Schutzmannschaft battalion 118 consisted...
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Maly Trostenets (redirect from Maly Trostinets extermination camp)
Reichskommissariat Ostland), the village became the location of a Nazi extermination site. Throughout 1942, Jews from Austria, Germany, the Netherlands,...
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Operation Reinhard (category Reserve Police Battalion 101)
remained largely dedicated to forced labor. Unlike "mixed" extermination camps, the extermination camps of Operation Reinhard kept no prisoners, except as...
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The Holocaust (section Extermination camps)
were carried out primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno...
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Christopher R. Browning (redirect from Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland)
concentration camp, and Browning wrote a report on the evidence for the extermination of Jews. During his testimony and a cross-examination by Irving, Browning...
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June 1941. The Einsatzgruppen worked hand-in-hand with the Order Police battalions on the Eastern Front to carry out operations ranging from the murder of...
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Forest Brothers, including 447 Soviet activists; 295 members of extermination battalions; 52 members of the NKVD, NKGB, and MGB; and 47 military personnel...
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creation of a racist ideology that justified their exploitation and extermination. The book looks at how this ideology was reinforced through popular...
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refuted by mainstream historians, contends that KL Warschau was an extermination camp operating a giant gas chamber inside a tunnel near Warszawa Zachodnia...
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Treblinka extermination camp. Units involved from the Waffen-SS were 821 Waffen-SS Panzergrenadiers from five reserve and training battalions and one cavalry...
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served at all the major extermination camps, including Treblinka. Treblinka was part of Operation Reinhard, the systematic extermination of the three million...
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major part in Operation Reinhard, the Nazi plan to exterminate Jews. They also served at extermination camps and played an important role in the annihilation...
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was responsible for administering the Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps for Nazi Germany, among similar duties. It was both the successor...
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major part in the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews during Operation Reinhard. They served at all extermination camps and played an important role...
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Trawniki concentration camp (redirect from SS Battalion Streibel)
part in Operation Reinhard, the Nazi plan to exterminate Polish and foreign Jews. They served at extermination camps, and played an important role in the...
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van, and, following re-assignment, developed the gas chambers for the extermination camps. From late 1942 onwards, he led Sonderaktion 1005, wherein millions...
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battalion of the Madras Regiment (Travancore) is the oldest extant unit in the Indian Army. It has been in service for over 300 years. The battalion was...
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