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Sonderkommando

[ zon-der-kuh-man-doh; German zawn-duhr-kaw-mahn-daw ]
/ ˈzɒn dər kəˌmæn doʊ; German ˈzɔn dər kɔˈmɑn dɔ /
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noun (in World War II Nazi concentration camps)
a group of prisoners assigned to collect belongings and dispose of the bodies of other prisoners who had died or been killed.
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Origin of Sonderkommando

<German: special detachment, equivalent to sonder- separate, special + Kommando detachment, mission, command <Italian commando;see command, commando

Words nearby Sonderkommando

sonata-rondo, sonatina, sondage, sonde, sonderclass, Sonderkommando, Sondheim, Sondra, sone, son et lumière, song
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