Funktionshäftling), or prisoner functionaries was developed. These were the prisoners with certain duties of supervision of over fellow prisoners assisting the...

A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of the prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards...

specified draconian punishments for disobedient prisoners. He also created a system of prisoner functionaries, which later developed into the camp elders...

French Jewish prisoner was returning upstairs to the attic of the building shared with the German prisoner functionaries. One of the functionaries, a German...

use was restricted to the more privileged Aryan prisoners, primarily the kapos, or "prisoner functionaries", and the criminal element. Jewish inmates were...

the prisoners were forced to sleep and work in shifts. This also helped alleviate the chronic overcrowding in the barracks. The prisoner functionaries at...

the defendants were men and women of the Schutzstaffel as well as prisoner functionaries who had worked at various concentration camps, notably Auschwitz...

for short), 41 were deemed political prisoners, and 35 were considered "asocial". They became prisoner functionaries, such as kapos and Blockältester (block...

Classification Prisoner functionary Kapo "Asocials" Criminals Homosexuals Jehovah's Witnesses Jews Political prisoners Nacht und Nebel Sonder- und Ehrenhaft...

were charged with forced labor were overseen by prisoner functionaries known as Kapos. Whether a prisoner was assigned to a physically easy or difficult...

others. Höss blamed his subordinates and kapos, prisoner functionaries, for the mistreatment of prisoners. He claimed that, despite his best efforts, Höss...

both the camp's prisoners and personnel. Of particular concern for them was Förschner's practice of selecting prisoner functionaries almost exclusively...

by the SS to "prisoner functionaries". Originally, these tasks were assigned to criminal prisoners, but after 1939, political prisoners began to displace...

concentration camp that arrived in Kaufering, Bavaria, on 18 June 1944. Prisoner functionaries were brought from Dachau to manage the new camp. Unusually, the...

survivors alleged to have collaborated with the Nazis, in particular prisoner functionaries ("kapos") and the Jewish Ghetto Police. It was motivated by the...

doctors, male guards, female guards (Aufseherinnen), and a few former prisoner-functionaries who had tortured or mistreated other inmates. In total, 38 defendants...

controlled by an international Jewish conspiracy; by killing communist functionaries and Soviet Jews, they expected that resistance would quickly collapse...

and inhumane neglect. Two of the three prisoner functionaries were accused of mistreating and killing prisoners. The other was accused of participating...

enough. The SS man noted the prisoner number on the violations report. Under Egon Zill, for example, prisoner functionaries, such as the Lagerälteste, were...

Ukrainian Red army prisoners of war. They were assisted by a cadre of Jewish inmates known as kapos, who were prisoner functionaries. Ivan is a common...

prolonged the dying process. Most of the prisoner functionaries, especially block leaders, were German criminal prisoners who were initially picked by Chmielewski...

scout unit. The SS guards, female Aufseherinnen guards, and former prisoner-functionaries with administrative positions at the camp were arrested at the end...

service", prisoner-functionary helper of the guards) armband. SS blood group tattoo "Tattoos and Numbers: The System of Identifying Prisoners at Auschwitz"...

hierarchy of privileged prisoners was extensive, with all prisoner functionaries having the power of life and life over other prisoners. The winter of 1944–1945...

wore the red roundel under their black Strafkompanie roundel. A prisoner-functionary (Funktionshäftling), or kapo (boss), wore a cloth brassard (their...

monarchism, henceforth becoming prisoner functionaries, pitting them against the unrepentant prisoners. The prison functionaries and those deemed to be the...

considered to be an example of a prisoner functionary in Nazi concentration camp, who used his position in favour of other prisoners. Küsel was arrested because...

create an incentive for prisoners to collaborate, although these institutions were used mostly by Kapos, "prisoner functionaries" and the criminal element...

and completely undernourished Soviet prisoners of war, he had three well-known communist prisoner functionaries replaced and punished with beatings. Florstedt...

quickly to save Neumann's life, Pestek began to approach other prisoner functionaries and offer to help them escape. Among them were Rudolf Vrba and Alfred...