File:Members of a Sonderkommando 1005 unit pose next to a bone crushing machine in the Janowska concentration camp.png

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Members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderaktion_1005" class="extiw" title="en:Sonderaktion 1005">Sonderkommando 1005</a> unit pose next to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skeleton" class="extiw" title="en:Human skeleton">bone</a> crushing machine in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janowska_concentration_camp" class="extiw" title="en:Janowska concentration camp">Janowska concentration camp</a> in a photo discovered by "a Soviet war crimes investigation team" called officially the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_State_Commission" class="extiw" title="en:Extraordinary State Commission">Extraordinary State Commission</a> for ascertaining and investigating crimes perpetrated by the German–Fascist invaders and their accomplices". Soviet prosecutor Colonel Lev Smirnov <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/02-14-46.asp">testified</a> in regards to the bone crushing before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials" class="extiw" title="en:Nuremberg Trials">Nuremberg Trails</a> in February 1946 and submitted photos of the machines. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/02-19-46.asp">According to Smirnov</a>, "over 200 000 Soviet citizens" were exterminated at Janowska. In reality the victims were not Soviet. They were predominantly Polish Jews as well as members of other ethnic groups from the south-eastern territories of the prewar Second Polish Republic trapped in the Soviet occupation zone following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.

A bone crusher from Janowska and other items such as a bar of soap made from human fat and gloves of human skin produced in the camps <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.warmuseum.kiev.ua/eng/z6.shtml">can be seen</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Great_Patriotic_War,_Kiev" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev">Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Kiev</a>

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current10:50, 3 January 2017Thumbnail for version as of 10:50, 3 January 2017480 × 361 (172 KB)127.0.0.1 (talk)Members of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderaktion_1005" class="extiw" title="en:Sonderaktion 1005">Sonderkommando 1005</a> unit pose next to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_skeleton" class="extiw" title="en:Human skeleton">bone</a> crushing machine in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janowska_concentration_camp" class="extiw" title="en:Janowska concentration camp">Janowska concentration camp</a> in a photo discovered by "a Soviet war crimes investigation team" called officially the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraordinary_State_Commission" class="extiw" title="en:Extraordinary State Commission">Extraordinary State Commission</a> for ascertaining and investigating crimes perpetrated by the German–Fascist invaders and their accomplices". Soviet prosecutor Colonel Lev Smirnov <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/02-14-46.asp">testified</a> in regards to the bone crushing before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials" class="extiw" title="en:Nuremberg Trials">Nuremberg Trails</a> in February 1946 and submitted photos of the machines. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/02-19-46.asp">According to Smirnov</a>, "over 200 000 Soviet citizens" were exterminated at Janowska. In reality the victims were not Soviet. They were predominantly Polish Jews as well as members of other ethnic groups from the south-eastern territories of the prewar Second Polish Republic trapped in the Soviet occupation zone following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939.<p> A bone crusher from Janowska and other items such as a bar of soap made from human fat and gloves of human skin produced in the camps <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.warmuseum.kiev.ua/eng/z6.shtml">can be seen</a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_the_Great_Patriotic_War,_Kiev" class="extiw" title="en:Museum of the Great Patriotic War, Kiev">Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Kiev</a></p>
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