Simply put, according to the article “The Concentration Camps, 1933-1945” on the website Projetaladin, a Sonderkommando remained someone tasked with disposing of the dead. Their more gruesome duties included ripping out the gold teeth of the dead and sweeping away the ashes of the corpses. Because the Sonderkommando title never got given to the Nazis, prisoners received the title. Their misery got only compounded by the fact that they existed as a secret and as such, remained too dangerous to leave kept alive for too long. They got killed and replaced every few months without warning. The first duty of a new Sonderkommando prevailed, often as disposing of the body of the person they
Simply put, according to the article “The Concentration Camps, 1933-1945” on the website Projetaladin, a Sonderkommando remained someone tasked with disposing of the dead. Their more gruesome duties included ripping out the gold teeth of the dead and sweeping away the ashes of the corpses. Because the Sonderkommando title never got given to the Nazis, prisoners received the title. Their misery got only compounded by the fact that they existed as a secret and as such, remained too dangerous to leave kept alive for too long. They got killed and replaced every few months without warning. The first duty of a new Sonderkommando prevailed, often as disposing of the body of the person they