July, Stahlecker told Arājs that his commando group was to unleash against the Jews a pogrom that looked spontaneous. The Arajs Kommando unit actively...

turned loose "Security Group Arājs", generally referred to as the Arājs Kommando or Special Commando (Sonderkommando) Arājs. On the same day, the Germans...

at the scene of the Rumbula massacre. Ezergailis states that "although Arājs' men were not the only ones on the ghetto end of the operation, to the degree...

1941. Lange also personally supervised executions conducted by the Arājs commando. He appears to have ordered that all the SD officers should personally...

goldsmith. 351 members of the Arajs Kommando were prosecuted by the Soviets, with 30 of them being executed. Viktors Arājs evaded justice for many years...

imprisoned while some killed as a result. Viktors Arājs, who was the leader of the eponymous commando unit which helped the Nazis murder the Jews of Latvia...

Viktors Arājs and his supporters undertook a campaign of arson against synagogues. On 2 July, Einsatzgruppe A commander Stahlecker appointed Arājs to head...

contact with Viktors Arājs on 1 July and instructed him to set up a commando unit. It was later named Latvian Auxiliary Police or Arajs Kommandos. The members...

occupiers were also aided by a unit of native Latvians known as the Arājs Commando, and at least to some extent by Latvian auxiliary police. The Nazis...

five districts of General Government territory set up its own Aktion 1005 commando to begin "cleaning" mass graves. The operations were not entirely successful...

deathcamps.org. Retrieved 2022-09-01. The Einsatzgruppen: Erich Naumann "'Commando was geen geoliede organisatie'". Trouw (in Dutch). 2009-11-12. Retrieved...

with Hamas fire in Rafah operation". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 10 May 2024. "Commando dies after being injured during West Bank operation". Times of Israel....

ISBN 978-0-8232-2627-6. OCLC 64595899. Vīksne, Rudīte (2005). "Members of the Arājs Commando in Soviet Court Files: Social Position, Education, Reasons for Volunteering...

a staff role in Berlin, where he developed his ideas on unconventional commando warfare. Skorzeny's proposals were to develop units specialized in such...

follow orders from Hitler even when they knew those orders were illegal. Commando Order German atrocities committed against Soviet prisoners of war Main...

"Spezialwagen" (special vans) and "Entlausungswagen" (delousing vans). The Lange commando killed patients in numerous hospitals in the Wartheland in 1940. They drove...

detail were shot and replaced with a new set of inmates. Men for this commando were selected both from Kaiserwald concentration camp and from the few...

between July and September 1941,.... Melamed, Joseph A. "The Mechanized Commando Unit of Haman". Association of Lithuanian Jews in Israel. Archived from...

2017 – via YouTube. Pakistan Army (8 September 2016). "Pakistan Army SSG Commandos New Song 2016 "Yaarian" Sung By Atif Aslam and Ali Zafar New Song 2016"...

of their involvement is unclear, because for the major killings, the Arājs commando would be brought in from Riga. In the parlance of the perpetrators and...

extermination of entire populations in the Eastern territories.[page needed] The commando leaders subordinate to Rasch met with him to discuss this order. Paul Blobel...

be shot. To ensure the group killing mentality, Ohlendorf forbade any commando from taking individual actions and explicitly instructed his men not to...

been named, including Die Spinne ("The Spider") run in part by Hitler's commando-chief Otto Skorzeny. Historian Daniel Stahl in his 2011 essay stated that...

July 1941 Schaper's Einsatzgruppe was subdivided into dozens of smaller commandos (Einsatzkommandos) numbering from several to several scores of people...

From July 13 to August 22, 1941, the commando operated out of Daugavpils, Latvia. During this time, the commando murdered 9,102 people, almost all of...

Palestinian accusations that it was responsible. On 7 May 2001, IDF naval commandos captured the vessel Santorini, which was sailing in international waters...

Pomerania (Polish: Pomorze) after the withdrawal of EG-IV and EG-V. The Commando was involved in the massacres in Piaśnica known as "Pommern Katyń" between...

Franz Walter Stahlecker. In April 1941, he took over leadership of Special Commando (Sonderkommando) 1b, which was part of Einsatzgruppe A, of which Stahlecker...

behind enemy lines in the same manner as Allied Special Forces such as commandos. On 21 November 1944, Prützmann was named the General Plenipotentiary...

former head of the Latvian police, Viktors Arājs, willingly collaborated with the Nazis by forming the Arājs Kommando, a Latvian volunteer police unit...