The Sacrifice of the Prisoners

It was these common prisoners, who bore no distinguishing marks on their sleeves, whom the capos really despised. While these ordinary prisoners had little or nothing to eat, the capos were never hungry. Often they were harder on the prisoners than were the guards and beat them more cruelly than the SS men did. They soon became much like the SS men and the camp wardens and may be judged on a similar psychological basis. This was an unrelenting struggle for daily bread and for life itself, for one's own sake or four. That of a good friend. For each man saved another victim had to be found. A definite number of prisoners had to go with each transport. It