Sonderabteilung

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. ^[1]

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)

References

1. Snyder, David Raub (2002). The prosecution and punishment of sex offenders in the Wehrmacht, 1939–1945 (PhD thesis). University of Nebraska–Lincoln. pp. 59–60.