Sonderaktion 1005: Difference between revisions

'''''{{lang|de|Sonderaktion}}''''' '''1005''' ({{IPA-de|zɔndɐakt͡sjoːn aɪ̯ntaʊ̯zəntfʏnf}}, 'Special Action 1005'), also called '''''Aktion''''' '''1005''' or '''''{{lang|de|Enterdungsaktion}}''''' ({{IPA-de|ɛntɐdʊŋsakt͡sjoːn}}, 'Exhumation Action'), was a [[Classified information|top-secret]] [[Nazi Party|Nazi]] operation conducted from June 1942 to late 1944. The goal of the project was to hide or [[Genocide denial|destroy any evidence of the mass murder]] that had taken place under [[Operation Reinhard]], the attempted (and rather largely
successful)<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/828424679|title=Out of the inferno : Poles remember the Holocaust|date=1989|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|others=Richard C. Lukas|isbn=978-0-8131-4331-6|location=Lexington|oclc=828424679}}</ref> extermination of all [[Jews]] in the [[General Government|General Government occupied zone]] of Poland. Groups of ''[[Sonderkommando]]'' prisoners, officially called ''Leichenkommandos'' ("corpse units"), were forced to exhume [[Mass grave|mass graves]] and [[Cremation|burn the bodies]]; inmates were often put in chains to prevent them from escaping.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Aktion 1005|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/aktion-1005|access-date=2021-11-13|website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref>