The Commitment of the Prisoners of Aushwitz

Common prisoners, who bore no distinguishing marks on their sleeves, whom the capos really despised. While these ordinary prisoners had little or nothing to ea, the capos were never hungry. In fact, many of the capes fared better in the camp than they had in their entire lives. Often they were harder on the prisoners than were the guards, and beat them more cruelly than the s s men did. These capos, of course, were chosen only from those prisoners whose characters promised to make them suitable for such procedures. And if they did not comply with what was expected of them, they were mmediately demoted. They soon became much like the s sMen and