释义 |
‖ Sonderkommando|ˈzɔndərkɔˌmando| [G. Sonderkommando special detachment.] In Nazi Germany, a detachment of prisoners in a concentration camp responsible for the disposal of the dead; also a member of such a detachment. Also fig.
1951Moyse & Stenhouse tr. Rousset's World Apart v. 27 The Sonderkommando, totally isolated from the world, condemned to live every second of its eternity with tortured and charred bodies. 1960S. Becker tr. Schwarz-Bart's Last of Just (1961) viii. 422 The team of Sonderkommando responsible for burning the Jews in the crematory ovens. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 2 July 815/1 A four-legged Sonderkommando who betrays his fellows to starvation. 1979J. Gardner Nostradamus Traitor xxxv. 165 The womenfolk prepared a great spread of food... ‘Enough food to feed the whole of a Sonderkommando.’ |