Sonderabteilung (English: Special Unit) is a German word often used to refer to some special German military formations during World War II. This term was similar to a detachment or battalion.
Several of the formations were created as penal military units composed of disgraced SS troops and criminals convicted of petty crimes.
List of sonderabteilungen (incomplete)
- Sonderabteilung Altreich
- Sonderabteilung Hela
- Sonderabteilung Lola
- Sonderabteilung Nachlässe
- Sonderabteilung Reinhardt
- Sonderabteilung Stralsund
- Sonderabteilung U
See also
- 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS
- 500th SS Parachute Battalion
- 999th Light Afrika Division (Germany)
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