Sonderabteilung

Sonderabteilung (English: Special Unit) is a German word often used to refer to some special German military formations during World War II. This term was similar to a detachment or battalion.

Several of the formations were created as penal military units composed of disgraced SS troops and criminals convicted of petty crimes.[1]

List of sonderabteilungen (incomplete)

  • Sonderabteilung Altreich
  • Sonderabteilung Hela
  • Sonderabteilung Lola
  • Sonderabteilung Nachlässe
  • Sonderabteilung Reinhardt
  • Sonderabteilung Stralsund
  • Sonderabteilung U

See also

References

  1. ^ Snyder, David Raub (2002). The prosecution and punishment of sex offenders in the Wehrmacht, 1939–1945 (PhD thesis). University of Nebraska–Lincoln. pp. 59–60. ProQuest 305523359.
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