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| | This Month in Holocaust History |
 | | The camp was set in the Schloss, an old palace inside the village, and in the Waldlager in the adjacent Rzuwowski Forest, in which mass graves and crematoria were later found. |
 | | To administer and operate the camp, a special unit was set up called Sonderkommando Kulmhof, also known as Sonderkommando Lange, after its first commandant, Hauptsturmfuehrer Herbert Lange and later, from March 1942, known as Sonderkommando Bothmann, after its first commandant, Hauptsturmfuehrer Hans Bothmann. |
 | | The Schlosskommando guarded the palace camp and participated in the killing process, while the Waldkommando, which operated in the forest camp, supervised the unloading of the victims' corpses, their burial, and, later, their cremation. |
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