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1052nd Special Unit of Security Police and Security Service

Sonderkommando der Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst 1052

History

Removal of evidence of Holocaust already began in Poland in May 1942 carried out by Sonderkommando 1005 as part of Sonderaktion 1005. With the same task, SS colonels Paul Blobel of the Reich Main Security Office (RSHA) and Emanuel Schäfer in charge of Security Police and Security Service (Sicherheitspolizei und Sicherheitsdienst) for Serbia formed Sonderkommando 1052 in November of 1943 in Belgrade.

Unit was made of Staff made of 10 to 12 members of Gestapo and Police Company made of 48 sub-officers from Military Police (Feldgendarmerie) transferred to state police. Prisoner company was made of 100 persons out which only three survived which managed to escape on 24 January 1944 from Jajinci during work, remaining prisoners were shot in Nish after cleanup was completed.

Unit began its work in Belgrade digging up, from December 1943 to April 1944, victims shot in Jajinci from Banjica and Sajmište/Semlin concentration camps. Exhumed bodies were stacked on giant pyres and covered by mixture of gasoline and petrol, ashes would be grinned to destroy remaining bone fragments. Valuable metals would be separated and taken to Berlin to Criminal Technical Institute (Kriminaltechnischen Institut - RSHA) by inspector Templ.

Staff

  • Commander:
  • Wilhelm Gustav Tempel/Templ, criminal inspector
  • Willy Kowatschek, criminal inspector
  • Ernest Hensel, criminal inspector
  • SS Lieutenant Sack
  • Police Company Commander:
    • Erich Grunewald

Organization

  • Staff
  • Police Company
  • Prisoner Company

Reference

  • Muharem KreÅ¡o: Njemačka okupaciona uprava u Belgradu 1941-1944. Beograd, 1979, pages 209-210