During the Holocaust, kapos were prisoners appointed by the Nazis to supervise the other prisoners. The kapos were granted a number of privileges and they were largely drawn from groups of violent criminals, meaning that…
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Sonderkommando
The Sonderkommando were prisoners in the concentration camps who were forced to work in the gas chambers and crematoriums, where they carried out the disposal of dead bodies. If they refused to do this, they…
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