SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof - the first German Nazi extermination camp

Written by Paweł Krupiński.

Chełmno nad Nerem - SS-Sonderkommando Kulmhof was the first Nazi German extermination camp, created in autumn 1941 in Chełmno nad Nerem. It operated until spring 1943 and briefly in 1944/45. The main place of mass extermination of the Jewish population from the Reichsgau Wartheland and prisoners of the Łódź ghetto. The estimated number of victims is around 200,000.

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Kulmhof (Chełno nad Nerem) - Nazi German extermination camp

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