Talk:Sonderaktion 1005

6 million Jews

Poor as it can be the german words are spelled way wrong

Additionally, the article states that only 1 million Jews and others were murdered by German "Death Squads." This is incorrect. The true number is well over 6 million. If the article only is referring individuals murdered "on sight" -- that is, not in concentration camps or ghettos -- it should clarify that rather than merely listing the number of dead at 1 million. — Preceding unsigned comment added by SideBae (talk • contribs) 16:09, 19 November 2020 (UTC)

So how did they make the other 5 million corpses vanished, then? This all sounds like a conspiracy theory, a bad one at that. --105.12.5.95 (talk) 11:58, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

IP editor, did you read the article? It states that the murder-burial-exhumation then crush/pulverize/burn process was not successfully or even partially accomplished in many cases. That's because the Soviet Army either

• arrived first and caught the Nazis in the act, OR
• found the murdered dead in huge mass graves at the concentration camps, before the retreating Nazi Germans and their Ukrainian and Latvian Hiwi buds and Trawniki helpers had a chance to hide everything and tidy up.

The Allies liberated some concentration camps as they approached from the west. They found murdered Jews in shallow graves as the Nazi Germans fell back toward home. Also contributing to the total 6 million count were Jews executed by Axis powers or allies, e.g. the Carpathian Sich and Serb-hating Croatian Ustaše militia, but not in concentration camps per se. There were plenty of Jewish (and Russian and Polish) corpses found throughout Transcarpathia, Romania, and Moldova, slaughtered by ideologically-motivated Nazi collaborators or Ostlegionen from the USSR. There was no shortage of non-German Wehrmacht volunteers and forced conscripts all the way south to Greece. So, I hope you are satisfied that if you were to look into this, you would find that there are not 5 million unaccounted for corpses of murdered Jews. The Holocaust is NOT a bad conspiracy theory! Regardless, if only one million Jews were murdered, that should still be more than sufficient cause for concern.--FeralOink (talk) 03:53, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

Edits February 1 2009

I cleaned up this article a bit, it is an important topic and deserves a good article. I added ISBNs for the two references, and I clarified the few notes that were in the text. Several links are bad, these will need to be corrected or deleted. A long way to go, but this is a beginning.Mtsmallwood (talk) 04:14, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

January 5 2010

Beware! I speak German, and I find that there are big differences between the German article and the English article! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.216.148.230 (talk) 19:57, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Lead image

Several Wikipedia articles, including this one, misdate the image of the bone-crushing machine. The photo was taken in 1944, following the liberation of the Janowska camp, -- not in 1943, while the camp was still operational. Here's historian Waitman Wade Beorn discussing the photo: [1]. A caption can also be seen. I made the changes accordingly: [diff. --K.e.coffman (talk) 01:07, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

Pyre - please link

Can you please link the word pyre to the corresponding wiki article pyre.

It is not such a common word for non english native users and shall be explained. Sz70 (talk) 02:43, 6 January 2021 (UTC)

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 November 2023

There is written that Reinhard Heydrich was assassinated in early June 1942. However, he was assassinated on May 27, 1942. Pataar (talk) 23:34, 13 November 2023 (UTC)

 Done reworded to hopefully clarify that he died of his wounds from the May assassination attempt in June. Cannolis (talk) 02:34, 14 November 2023 (UTC)

Edit request

hi, "The most effective way was eventually found to be a giant pyres on iron grills" either it is "a giant pyre" or "to be giant pyres" it cant be plural and singular at the same time. 89.8.51.223 (talk) 10:32, 24 July 2024 (UTC)