Image Konrads Kalejs.jpg thumb 120px left Konr ds Kal js , wartime photo The ArajsKommando also Sonderkommando Arajs , led by SS Sturmbannf hrer Viktors Ar js , was a unit of Latvian Auxiliary Police lang de Lettische Hilfspolizei subordinated to the Nazi Sicherheitsdienst SD . It was one of the more well known and notorious killing units during the Holocaust . This group, composed of Latvian men, made contact with the leader of Einsatzgruppe A , Franz Walter Stahlecker Walter Stahlecker , in early July 1941, immediately following the German capture of Riga . All of the ArajsKommando members were volunteers, and free to leave at any time. ref name bettina Ruth Bettina Birn and Volker Riess. Revising the Holocaust . The Historical Journal , Vol. 40, No. 1 Mar., 1997 , pp. 195 215. Published by Cambridge University Press. Stable URL http www.jstor.org stable 3020959 ref The ArajsKommando unit actively participated in a variety of Nazi atrocities, including the killing of Jews , Romani people Roma , and mental patients, as well as punitive actions and massacres of civilians along Latvia s eastern border with the Soviet Union . ref name bettina The Kommando killed around 26,000 Jews in total. ref cite book title The Holocaust in Latvia, 1941 1944 author Andrew Ezergailis publisher ..., the ArajsKommando figured prominently in the burning of Riga s Great Choral Synagogue on 4 July ... deportations, suggested that NKVD agents probably participated in the activities of ArajsKommando ... See also Viktors Ar js Konr ds Kal js , a a company commander in the ArajsKommando Herberts Cukurs , another known member of the Arajs Kommado, assassinated by the Mossad in 1965. References Reflist ... of the Ar js Kommando, ref cite web url http news.bbc.co.uk 2 hi uk news 589304.stm title Konrad Kalejs ... of the Ar js Kommando, 500 of a maximum of around 1,500 total members, actively participated in the killings ... Ar js it Commando Ar js lv Ar ja komanda pl Ar js Commando pt Comando Arajs ru sv ... more details
for the Romania n commune called Kommand in Hungarian language Hungarian Comand u Kommando is a generic German language German word meaning unit or command . During World War II it was also the basic unit of organisation of Slave labor slave labourer s in German concentration camps . Among the most notable of such units were the infamous Sonderkommando s, carrying over the Final Solution by guarding the newly arrived inmates, escorting them to gas chamber s, searching the bodies and burning them. Au enkommandos were external work details that were set up, either leaving from the concentration camp or from outside the camp boundary. ref Bernhard Frankfurter Ed. , translated and annotated by Susan E. Cernyak Spatz, http books.google.com books?id 7AiY1QFhJygC&pg PA183&lpg PA183&dq The meeting an Auschwitz survivor confronts an SS physician Google Books. English translation 2000 Syracuse University Press, p. 183 ISBN 0 8156 0604 4 ref Other kommandos depended on the job they were assigned to, such as woodcutting kommandos, factory kommandos or kitchen kommandos. The use of the term in the World War II era Luftwaffe was for special units used to test new aircraft for combat readiness as Erprobungskommando units and examples existed that only used the Kommando name, such as the Luftwaffe Group military aviation unit Gruppe sized Kommando Nowotny , the world s first military jet aircraft unit of any size ever sent into combat. In the winter spring 1945 period, single plane Kommando designated units that used the Arado Ar 234 Blitz jet powered reconnaissance bomber operated from hidden, forest lined runways in eastern Germany. References reflist See also Kapo concentration camp Kapo Language of Nazi concentration camps Category Nazi concentration camp occupations ca Kommando fr Kommando camp pl Komando ... more details
unreferenced date October 2009 Infobox Weapon name Kommando Arms Land Defence Pistol image caption origin Flagcountry Rhodesia type Submachine gun Type selection is ranged YES Service history service used by wars Rhodesian Bush War Production history designer design date manufacturer Kommando Arms, Lacoste Engineering unit cost production date Circa 1965 1979 number variants General specifications spec label weight 2.7kg length part length width height diameter crew Ranged weapon specifications cartridge 9x19mm Parabellum cartridge weight caliber 9mm barrels action Blowback rate Semi automatic fire velocity range max range feed Uzi type box magazines sights Iron The Kommando LDP Land Defence Pistol , also known as the Lacoste LDP is a submachine gun of Rhodesian origin manufactured by Kommando Arms and Lacoste Engineering during the Rhodesian Bush War as a Land Defence Pistol for white Rhodesian farmers. It was nicknamed the Rhuzi since its layout is externally similar to the Uzi IMI UZI alongside being chambered in the same calibre and interchangeability with the same magazines. See also Sanna 77 External links http www.securityarms.com 20010315 galleryfiles 3100 3133.htm Kommando LDP at Securityarms http www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk maritime collections seized highlights kommando.aspx Smuggled Example White Farmers training with Kommando LDP in May 1979 http www.life.com image 52593901 http www.life.com image 3289590 http www.life.com image 3395862 DEFAULTSORT Kommando Ldp Category Infantry weapons of the Cold War Category Submachine guns Category Telescoping bolt submachine guns Category Weapons of Rhodesia Category 9mm Parabellum firearms firearms stub ... more details
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Infobox military unit unit name Kommando Nowotny image caption dates September 1944 &ndash November 1944 country Germany allegiance branch Air Force type Fighter Aircraft role Air superiority size Air Force Gruppe command structure current commander garrison ceremonial chief colonel of the regiment nickname patron motto colors identification symbol march mascot battles notable commanders Walter Nowotny Major Walter Nowotny 26.9.44 &ndash 8.11.44 br Erich Hohagen Major Erich Hohagen 8.11.44 &ndash 19.11.44 anniversaries decorations battle honours Aircraft aircraft fighter Messerschmitt Me 262 Me 262 Kommando Nowotny was a Luftwaffe fighter aircraft fighter Gruppe formed during the last months of World War II for testing and establishing tactics for the Messerschmitt Me 262 jet fighter , and was created and first commanded by Walter Nowotny , from whom it drew its name. History Kommando Nowotny was formed on 26 September 1944 in Bramsche Achmer and Bramsche Hesepe with Stab Kommando Nowotny from Stab III. Zerst rergeschwader 26 ZG 26 , ref For an explanation of the meaning of Luftwaffe unit designation see Luftwaffe Organization ref 1. Kommando Nowotny from 9. ZG 26, 2. Kommando Nowotny from 8. ZG 26 and 3. Kommando Nowotny new . Thus its strength was 3 Staffeln and a Stab flight. On 3 October it attained operational status Citation needed date July 2010 with a complement of about 40 Me 262 1A jet interceptors. Over the next month and a half the unit operated against allied aircraft, while at the same time trying to establish proper tactics for a Jet fighter unit. It also had to deal with many technical problems plaguing the unproven Me 262. The unit was the first to realise that a dedicated protection squadron of single piston engined, single seat fighters like the Messerschmitt Bf 109 Bf 109 and Focke Wulf 190 FW 190 were a necessity for the jets, as the Me 262 could not manoeuver or accelerate well at low speeds, and thus was a sitting duck for any allied fighters nearby ... more details
refimprove date December 2010 Infobox military unit unit name Kommando Spezialkr fte image Image KSK Coat of arms.svg 180px caption KSK unit badge country flagicon Germany Germany type Special Forces branch German Army dates 1996 Created br 1997 Activated Present specialization Hostage rescue, Airborne operations, Direct Action, Unconventional Warfare, Counter Insurgency, Anti Terror, Covert Operations, Intelligence operations command structure Special Operations Division Germany Special Operations Division size 1,100 soldiers, 200 300 participating in combat operations current commander Brigadier General Brigadegeneral Heinz Feldmann garrison Calw , Baden W rttemberg , Germany ceremonial chief nickname motto Facit Omnia Voluntas lat. The will is decisive ref Reinhard Scholzen KSK Das Kommando Spezialkr fte der Bundeswehr , Motorbuch Verlag, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3 613 02384 9, S. 108 ref colors march mascot battles Bosnia and Herzegovina br Kosovo War br Afghanistan Operation Enduring Freedom , Battle of Tora Bora , Operation Anaconda , International Security Assistance Force ISAF notable commanders Brigadier General Brigadegeneral Hans Christoph Ammon anniversaries decorations Image Streamer PUC Navy.PNG 200px center Navy and Marine P.U.C. Presidential Unit Citation US United States Navy Presidential Unit Citation for KSK members of Task Force K Bar The KSK Kommando Spezialkr fte ... HAHO equipment Insignia File Barettabzeichen Kommando Spezialkr fte Bw.jpg right thumb 85px Badge ... ksk Official site de icon http www.sondereinheiten.de einheiten ksk Kommando Spezialkr fte ... display title DEFAULTSORT Kommando Spezialkrafte Category Special forces of Germany Category Airborne units and formations of Germany Link FA de de Kommando Spezialkr fte es KSK fr Kommando Spezialkr fte it Kommando Spezialkr fte nl KSK ja KSK no Kommando Spezialkr fte pt KSK ru KSK sl Kommando Spezialkr fte sv Kommando Spezialkr fte ... more details
Ke ler 1957 1967 Kommando LSK LV Lieutenant General , de Herbert Scheibe Herbert Scheibe 1967 1972 Kommando LSK LV Colonel Gener, de Wolfgang Reinhold Wolfgang Reinhold 1972 1989 Kommando LSK LV Lieutenant General, de Rolf Berger Rolf Berger 1989 1990 Kommando LSK LV Organisation The Kdo was composed ..., groups, organizations, units and military formations have been under direct control of the Kommando ... display title translation ref de Kommando LSK LV External links Commons category Airforce of the National ... Category 1950 establishments in East Germany de Kommando LSK LV ... more details
Information Description Exhortation for members of P rkonkrusts, students, officers and paramilitaries to join the Arajs Commando Source scan from newspaper T vija, published by the Nazi German occupation authorities in Latvia Date originally published 4 July 1941 Author unsigned, probably formulated by the Sicherheitsdienst Permission Non free fair use in P rkonkrusts other versions Non free use rationale Description A notice taken from the Nazi occupation era Latvian language newspaper T vija, 4 July 1941. Newspaper itself is no longer under copyright. Source Captured from the digitised newspaper collection Mantojums 1 , produced by the National Library of Latvia , which holds the copyright to the scanned image. Article P rkonkrusts Portion fraction of a newspaper page, depicting the notice and part of the masthead showing the date Low resolution yes Purpose Clearly illustrates that the members of P rkonkrusts were actively sought for recruitment by the German occupation authorities to the Arajs Kommando , one of the most notorious killing units of the Holocaust . Replaceability This is a primary source historical document. It could be replaced by making a scan of one s own from an original copy of the newspaper. However, original copies of the wartime newspaper in question are not easy to come by. Hence the capture from the NLL scan. Other information The extent to which members of P rkonkrusts took part in the Arajs Kommando is a matter of scholalrly debate in te history of the Holocaust in Latvia. ... more details
loose ArajsKommando Security Group Ar js , generally referred to as the ArajsKommando Ar js Kommando ... name Press Press, The Murder of the Jews in Latvia 1941 1945 , page 70. ref See also ArajsKommando Ar js Kommando Notes reflist 2 References ru icon http www.ufo com.net articles detail.php?ID 1067 ... Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME Ar js, Viktors ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arajs ... 13 January 1988 PLACE OF DEATH Kassel , West Germany DEFAULTSORT Arajs, Viktors Category 1910 ... more details
ArajsKommando Sonderkommando Arajs , one of several security police units which assisted ... established that the Einsatzkommando, the ArajsKommando and similar groups were responsible for killing ... Riga by the end of 1941 the ArajsKommando were responsible for about half of this total . ref name ... more details
in Riga in honour of the national hero Herberts Cukurs, in which his work in the ArajsKommando ... part in the activities of the notorious ArajsKommando, which participated in the Holocaust and was responsible ... of Latvia by Nazi Germany in the summer of 1941, Cukurs became a member the notorious ArajsKommando , responsible for many of the crimes of the Holocaust in Latvia. Historian Andrew Ezergailis ... Latvian SD man at the scene of Rumbula massacre . Ezergailis states that although Arajs men were ... more details
Summary Information Description A depiction of the RAE flag colours Source self made Date 22Feb08 Location Brisbane, Australia Author User Kommando Kommando User talk Kommando talk other versions Licensing PD self date February 2008 Copy to Wikimedia Commons bot Fbot priority true ... more details
123px Konrads Kal js of the ArajsKommando of Latvian Auxiliary Police, wartime photo. The ArajsKommando also Sonderkommando Arajs , led by SS Sturmbannf hrer Viktors Ar js , was a unit of Latvian ... Ezergailis work details the activities of the ArajsKommando, the Latvian unit that Brigadef hrer ... more details
had organized to carry out massacres in the smaller cities, such as the ArajsKommando . ref ... workers. In addition to Tabbert, the ArajsKommando Ar js commando of native Latvians was responsible ... was the so called Jelgava massacres The Vagul ns Kommando Vagul ns Kommando , which was responsible ... more details
proudly cocked on one ear . Ar js commando formed Main ArajsKommando On July 2 Viktors Ar js started ... . ref http forum.axishistory.com viewtopic.php?f 51&t 133151 Latvia & Lithuania Viktors Arajs and the guy Klimaitis ref On the night of July 3, ArajsKommando Ar js Kommando started arrest ing, battery ... thumb 100px Konr ds Kal js of the ArajsKommando of Latvian Auxiliary Police . Image Bundesarchiv Bild ... through Latvia s smaller towns, and with the aid of Latvians. The Arajs Commando Ar js Commando ... grounds of ill health. ref name Bloxham 01 Victors Arajs was charged in a British court ... Arajs was caught, and, in 1979, tried and convicted of murder in a West German court. ref name ... condemned the former SS Sturmbahnf hrer of the Latvian Legion and former Police Major Viktor Arajs to a life term in prison. Arajs had been living in an underground existence in Frankfurt for twenty ... more details
KSK may refer to Kar yaka S.K. , a sports club from Izmir, Turkey Kill Switch...Klick , an American industrial band Kissing Suzy Kolber , a sports blog Kommando Spezialkr fte , part of Germany s Special Forces disambig de KSK it KSK ja KSK no KSK sl KSK sv KSK ... more details
An Erprobungskommando EKdo was a Luftwaffe unit tasked with the testing of new aircraft and weaponry under operational conditions. Kommandos Erprobungskommando 16 Erprobungskommando 16 was formed March 1943 in Peenem nde West, as a test unit for the new Messerschmitt Me 163 rocket fighter. The unit was disbanded on 14 February 1945. Commanding officers Major Wolfgang Sp te , February 1943 May 1944 Hauptmann Toni Thaler, May 1944 February 1945 Erprobungskommando 154 Erprobungskommando 154 was formed in November 1943 in Langenhagen , to test the new Focke Wulf Ta 154 night fighter. Erprobungskommando 162 Erprobungskommando 162 was formed in January 1945 in Rechlin Roggenthin, to test the new Heinkel He 162 jet fighter. Commanding officers Major Heinrich B r , January 1945 May 1945 Erprobungskommando 262 Erprobungskommando 262 was formed in April 1944 in Lechfeld to test the new Messerschmitt Me 262 . The unit was disbanded on 26 September 1944 and used to form Kommando Nowotny . Commanding officers Hauptmann Werner Thierfelder , April 1944 18 July 1944 Major Walter Nowotny , 19 July 1944 26 September 1944 Kommando Welter Kommando Welter was initially formed in November 1944 in Burg bei Magdeburg as Kommando Stamp , flying the Messerschmitt Me 262 Me 262A 1a , as an experimental nightfighter unit, but was soon renamed Kommando Welter . The unit was redesignated 10. NJG 11 on 28 January 1945. Commanding officers Oberleutnant Gerhard Stamp , November 1944 Oberleutnant Kurt Welter , November 1944 January 1945 References Citation surname Boyne given Walter J. authorlink Walter J. Boyne title Messerschmitt Me 262 Arrow to the Future place United States of America publisher Smithsonian Institution year 1980 isbn 0 87474 275 7 . Category Military units and formations of the Luftwaffe pl Erprobungskommando ... more details
Infobox Holocaust Event Event Name D nam nde Action Image Name Image Caption AKA Operation D nam nde, Aktion D nam nde Location Bi ernieki forest, near Daugavgr va Daugavgr va D nam nde , Latvia Date March 1942 Incident type Mass shootings Perpetrators Kurt Krause , Eduard Roschmann , Gerhard Maywald Participants Organizations Arajs Kommando Camp Ghetto Victims About 3,740 German, Czech, and Austrian Jews Survivors Witnesses Documentation Memorials Notes The D nam nde Action Aktion D nam nde was an operation launched by the Nazism Nazi Germany German occupying force in Bi ernieki forest, near Riga , Latvia . Its objective was to execute Jews who had recently been deported to Latvia from Germany , Austria , Bohemia and Moravia . These murders are sometimes separated into the First D nam nde Action, occurring on March 15 1942, and the Second D nam nde Action on March 26 1942. About 1,900 people were killed in the first action and 1,840 in the second. The victims were lured to their deaths by a false promise that they would receive easier work at a non existent resettlement facility near a former town in Latvia called Daugavgr va Daugavgr va D nam nde . Rather than being transported to a new facility, they were trucked to woods north of Riga, shot, and buried in previously dug mass graves. The elderly, the sick and children predominated among the victims. Background See also Riga ghetto As of February 10 1942, the approximate ghetto and concentration camp populations of German Jews in Riga and the vicinity were Jungfernhof concentration camp , 2,500 the German ghetto 11,000 Salaspils 1,300. Of the Latvian Jews, about 3,500 men and 300 women were in the Latvian ghetto. ref name JT 26 Schneider, Journey into Terror , pages 26 and 27. ref In December 1941, Kurt Krause , whom the author Max Kauffman describes as the man eater , became the German commandant of the Riga ghettos. Krause was a former Berlin police detective. His assistant was Max Gymnich , a Gestapo man from C ... more details
of the ArajsKommando , with support from other such Latvian auxiliaries. In charge of the operation ... of the Riga Ghetto by the ArajsKommando. The Rumbula killings, together with many others, formed ... in Latvia , at page 211 ref The Nazi occupiers were also aided by a unit of native Latvians known as the ArajsKommando Ar js Commando , and at least to some extent by Latvian Auxiliary Police Latvian ... disturbance they often aimed badly and it was necessary for the Kommando leaders to go ... Andrew Ezergailis states that although Arajs men were not the only ones on the ghetto end of the operation ... of clothing became huge, members of the Arajs Commando loaded the articles on trucks to be transported ... of the time. Viktors Arajs , who was drunk, worked very close to the pits supervising the Latvian ... was dead those still alive were finished off by the Arajs commando. Individual graves were not dug ... more details
unreferenced date March 2009 Admiral Danish Fleet ADMDANFLT is two things The English name of S v rnets Operative Kommando usually shortened to SOK , translates directly to Danish Naval Operational Command , the operationally supreme organisation of Royal Danish Navy the Danish navy . ADMDANFLT as a person is a kontreadmiral OF 7 who is the chief of naval operations in Denmark, and as such the chief of the organisation named Admiral Danish Fleet. The organisation is located just outside rhus . External links http forsvaret.dk SOK eng Pages default.aspx Admiral Danish Fleet website Template group list Military of Denmark coord 56 09 15 N 10 05 41 E region DK type landmark source kolossus dawiki display title Category Royal Danish Navy Category Military units and formations of Denmark Europe mil stub Denmark stub da S v rnets Operative Kommando ... more details
BGK is a three letter acronym and may stand for Associations Balthasar Gerards Kommando , a Netherlands Dutch hardcore punk band. Science Apteronotus albifrons , a fish known as the black ghost knifefish , commonly abbreviated to BGK in fishkeeping aquarium literature . Bhatnagar Gross Krook is a scheme used in Lattice Boltzmann methods . Sports Barangay Ginebra Kings , a professional Philippine basketball team. disambig fr BGK it BGK pl BGK ... more details
Sok may refer to Sok River in Russia Sok, a unit of volume Sok, a Cambodia n name meaning well As an acronym , SOK or S.O.K. may refer to Suppressor of killing in molecular biology, see hok sok system Saviors of Kamigawa set in Magic The Gathering Sillunu Oru Kadhal a Tamil film S v rnets Operative Kommando , Danish naval command Suomen Osuuskauppojen Keskuskunta , Finnish company Swedish Olympic Committee , Swedish sending organisation for the Olympic Games disambig nl Sok ... more details
KPN may refer to KPN telecommunications company A south Indian travel agency KPN Travels India Ltd A model of computation for concurrent processes Kahn process network Korean People s Navy KPN Confederation of Independent Poland A french black metal band Kommando Peste Noire . disambig de KPN it KPN pl KPN ... more details
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