Subcamp (SS)

The term sub-camp use historians exploring the complex system of the former Nazi places of detention in the German Reich. It is used to distinguish between Nazi concentration camps (list of main camp ) and their associated by the SS Economic-Administrative Main camps or outside the camp. Add to KZ - camps existed in many cases worse survival conditions for the prisoners than in the main camps.

Emergence of the concept

Within a concentration camp prisoners had to do different work. They should not be detained unemployed. The work could also be senseless and vexatious, without any economic benefit it followed. Following the military parlance, the SS called such inmate work assignments as a command, the preamble were the work details of a bearing. For example, there was the Dachau concentration camp in 1940 a work detail crematorium, which was composed of a group of concentration camp prisoners who were housed separately and were allowed to have no contact with other prisoners. Commands that were entrusted with construction work was supervised by Kapos.

The classification to a lighter or heavy physical command affected the survival of the prisoners. A command within a building, such as manual work was that took place for prisoners bearable as commands in the winter in freezing temperatures outdoors.

Concentration sub- commands

The Dachau concentration camp was the first concentration camp, which was built by the Reichsführer- SS Himmler. It existed as early as 1933 and became the prototype for subsequent concentration camps such as Buchenwald, which was created in 1937. Already the Dachau concentration camp was physically no way limited to the site of Dachau. The commands that are inside the camp had to do, soon came commands that took place outside the camp, such as the command of the herbal plantation or work details that were divided for cutting peat. The SS used detainees and more often outside their camp and had facilities such as roads, ditches, barracks or SS recreation centers built. However, even for private enjoyment of Nazi concentration camp inmates sizes were used: Oswald Pohl was for cottage " Brüningsau " for Himmler's hunting lodge and as well as for the country home of Hans Loritz, the commander of the Dachau concentration camp. Also Eleonore Baur, a personal friend of Hitler, was assigned his own command.

Many commands work consisted of only weeks or months and the document thickness varied. The then parlance called commands, where prisoners spent the night outside the camp, as well as external command.

External commands developed in some cases to new, independent concentration camps: the camp of Mauthausen began in August 1938 with the arrival of the first detainee commands from Dachau. Also the concentration camp Niederhagen emerged from a concentration sub- command. The Mittelbau -Dora was initially subcamp of Buchenwald and later became an independent concentration camp.

Sub-camp

With the outbreak of war, the SS prisoners sat in a reinforced armament factories. The prisoners were either provisionally housed at various sleeping quarters, in other cases, the SS had their own camp with watchtowers and fences built. Some sub-camp had a similar spatial structure as a concentration camp. Also, there was camp commander and prisoner functionaries as " camp elder " or " block leader ".

The bearings are now known by terms such as sub-camps and sub-camps. To some extent, colloquially also the more familiar short form " concentration camp " was used.

In the hierarchy of the Nazi camp system outside camps were each a concentration camp, which led, for example, the prisoner register and the register of deaths. Often the supply of food was worse than in the main camp, quite apart from the sanitation facilities or sleeping quarters for concentration camp prisoners. In later Nazi documents found for outer bearing part the term labor camp.

Lists

The following lists include external or secondary storage of individual main camp called concentration camps: