Kommando

Kommando is a generic German word meaning unit or command. During World War II it was also the basic unit of organization of slave labourers in German concentration camps, equivalent to a detail or detachment.

Among the most notable of such units were the Sonderkommandos, carrying out the Final Solution by guarding the newly arrived inmates, escorting them to gas chambers, searching the bodies and burning them. Außenkommandos were external work details that were set up, either leaving from the concentration camp or from outside the camp boundary.