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 to supervise forced labor or carry …

2024年12月9日 · The SS forced some prisoners to help run concentration camps. These prisoners were called prisoner functionaries. They were assigned to administrative and …

2020年1月22日 · Kapos were prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps that helped their captors brutally control the prisoner population in exchange for privileges.

2019年11月23日 · Some Holocaust survivors claimed "kapos" — prisoners the Nazis turned into concentration camp guards — were "worse than the Germans." By some accounts, kapos …

Kapos were inmates of Nazi camps who were appointed as guards to oversee other prisoners in various tasks. There were three main types of Kapos : work supervisors, block elders, and …

A kapo or prisoner functionary was a special type of prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps during The Holocaust. Kapos were chosen by the Schutzstaffel (SS) camp guards to help run …

2022年11月29日 · In 2017 a person I did not know emailed me to call me a kapo —a concentration camp prisoner who agreed to work for the Nazis. What had I done to deserve …

2021年5月20日 · Imprisoned in concentration camps, Kapos were enemies and victims of the Nazis; they were Jewish inmates who were forced by the Nazis to serve as “stand-in” guards. …

2022年3月24日 · The kapos or bosses of the Nazi concentration camps were prisoners who collaborated with the political police of the Third Reich, the Schutzstaffel or SS, to fulfill …

A kapo or prisoner functionary (German language: Funktionshäftling) was a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out …