"Code Language"

“Special treatment,” “special vehicle,” “special action” and similar terms, when occurring in German wartime documents dealing with the so-called “Jewish question,” are said to be mere camouflage words for murder – so orthodox historians claim. Yet as the contributions in this section show, this is not at all the case. Quite to the contrary, in many cases the German prefix “Sonder-” (=special) quite often had rather beneficial implications for the persons involved, in particular when dealing with the Auschwitz camp.

The Razor and the Ring

“Plurality is not to be assumed without necessity.”—William of Ockham John Weir is a computer programer/analyst who lives with his wife and three children in a suburb of Kansas City. Born in Missouri in 1958, he received a B. S. degree in computer science and technology from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. The…

Special Treatment in Auschwitz

Item Properties Published by: Uckfield: Castle Hill Publishers ISBN: 978-1-59148-142-3 Pages: 174 Edition No.: 2, corrected and updated Release Date: 7/2016 Illustrations: 37 b+w Features: Index, Bibliography Appearing in German wartime documents in the context of the “Holocaust,” terms like “special treatment,” “special action,” and others have usually been interpreted as code words that signify…

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