• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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