Strafkompanie

Criminal departments (including penal company or Criminal Section) were military organizations in fortresses or colonies, which served to accommodate people who were on the one hand as unworthy or service which would have threatened the other hand, a longer term of imprisonment.

Departments of the first type were also called disciplinary companies. Due to the selection of the teams the criminal departments were never very extensive, so was the beginning of the 20th century only a criminal division, which was stationed at Spandau and assigned to the 5th Guards regiment. She had the name " Disciplinary Division of the Guard Corps ."

A penal company (SK) was a special company working in the concentration camps - hard work on the run, even after the official end of the work and on Sunday afternoons, when deprived of food, as a form of severe abuse by Kapos and SS