(February 28, 2013 at 10:34 pm)The Germans are coming Wrote: Actualy I visited Dachau, Mauthause and Auschwitz to see the memorials and exebitions.
The SS brigades stationed there "couldnt stomache" the sight and stench of the gaschambers and cremetorias.
What they did was chose who would die, lead them to the gaschambers, lock them in and dumb the Zyklon B into the chambers.
Getting the bodies out of the chambers and buring these in the ofens was left to be done by jewish slave laborers - who themselves were mostly murdered for being witnesses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando
Quote:Sonderkommandos were work units of Nazi death camp prisoners, composed almost entirely of Jews, who were forced, on threat of their own deaths, to aid with the disposal of gas chamber victims during The Holocaust. The death-camp Sonderkommando, who were always inmates, should not be confused with the SS-Sonderkommandos which were ad hoc units formed from various SS offices between 1938 through 1945.
The term itself in German means "special unit", and was part of the vague and euphemistic language which the Nazis used to refer to aspects of the Final Solution (cf. Einsatzgruppen).
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.