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Originally Posted by jason taylor  Could he have been a Sonderkommando? |
I would say not.This group was employed as the detail in extermination centres such as Auschwitz and other such centres in Poland to perform the gruesome tasks of handling the dead.
They were, in the majority of cases, selected for this type of work by the SS selection of those on the incoming transports.Others may have volunteered for this Hades task as a motivation to survive.However the SS randomly would clear out the Sonderkommdo groups to the extermination process without warning.
These inmates knew what was going on in these camps and we owe it to those who survived who were able to give firm evidence of the Nazi policy of deceivement in their "Settlement in the East" and its genocide on the day when retribution came.