Sonderabteilung
# Sonderabteilung

Sonderabteilung (English: Special Unit) is a German word often used to refer to some special German military formations during World War II. This term was similar to a detachment or battalion.

Several of the formations were created as penal military units composed of disgraced SS troops and criminals convicted of petty crimes.

## List of sonderabteilungen (incomplete)

* Sonderabteilung Altreich
* Sonderabteilung Hela
* Sonderabteilung Lola
* Sonderabteilung Nachlässe
* Sonderabteilung Reinhardt
* Sonderabteilung Stralsund
* Sonderabteilung U
