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In addition to the organizational structure of the SS camp crew , a second camp hierarchy was created with the "functional prisoners", which made the large number of inmates more controllable, more manageable. This group of prisoners saved SS personnel and costs. The group of functional prisoners included up to ten percent of the camp inmates. Compared with today's detention centers, the Nazi regime could keep the number of SS personnel who had direct contact with the prisoners, very low. Without the functional prisoners, the SS camp management would not have been able to ensure the smooth running of everyday warehouse life. [2]
On the other hand, the SS delegated part of their power to the function prisoners. She let them appear as hated minions. This democratized the groups of prisoners, which led to their further division. [3] Tensions arose among the various nationalities as well as between the many groups of prisoners (see Identification of Prisoners in the Concentration Camps ). Just one topos is the brutality of the "criminal Kapos ", the officials of the " professional criminals", who were also called "Greens" because of their labeling. Some of the function prisoners were the henchmen of the SS in brutality not after, others tried to protect inmates. [5]
As "central instrument of domination" [6] in the concentration camps, the "inmate self-government" emerged, as the contemporary euphemistic SS term used to mean.
Himmler's concentration camp inspection was able to realize the low staffing requirements of SS guards by introducing the obligation to pay posts as early as 1933. This was a service order to the Lager-SS to shoot at mutinous prisoners immediately. Himmler forbade it in writing to warn inmates with words or to try a physical defense by physical force.
The punishment of entire groups for the behavior of a single prisoner, for example, the penalty on the roll call , contributed to the relatively low SS staffing needs.
There was a perpetuation of the perpetrator-victim chain (victims became perpetrators, perpetrators became victims) within the group of inmates. The constant surveillance and permanent threat of punishment caused both ubiquitous mistrust and selfishness as a survival strategy . The denial of human dignity also affected the coexistence of the prisoners.
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fucked up cycle
gotta break it to end it