Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers : Sonderkommandos, Kapos & Trawniki - IAN BAXTER

Nazi Concentration Camp Overseers

Sonderkommandos, Kapos & Trawniki

By: IAN BAXTER

Paperback | 30 April 2021

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The Nazis' vast concentration camp network and, later, the 'Final Solution' program made heavy demands on the SS whose responsibility it was. The use of 'overseers' minimized costs and enabled the camps to run with fewer SS personnel. As this well researched book describes, there were three principal groups of 'helpers' Sonderkommandos, Kapos and Trawniki.

The Sonderkommandos' duties included unloading Jews from trains, collecting their possessions and allocating work details. Under SS supervision, they also ran the gas chambers and crematoria.

The Kapos oversaw the Sonderkommandos. Many were originally prisoner functionaries recruited from violent criminal gangs and had a well-deserved reputation for brutality.

The third group, known as Trawniki or Trawnikimänner, were Central and Eastern European collaborators recruited from Russian POW camps. While some served in a military capacity, others played an instrumental role in the Holocaust program, rounding up and transporting Jews from the ghettos to the concentration camps.

The graphic images and text of this Images of War series work demonstrate that the 'overseer' system was extensive and effective as its members competed without scruple to maintain the favor of their SS masters while pitting victim against victim.

About the Author

Ian Baxter is an avid collector of WW2 photographs. His previous books in this Series include Hitler's Boy Soldiers, Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants and German Army on the Eastern Front - The Advance, German Army on the Eastern Front - The Retreat and Nazi Concentration Camp Commandants, The Crushing of Army Group (North) and the SS Waffen Division series including SS Leibstandarte Division and SS Totenkopf Division At War. He lives near Chelmsford, Essex.

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