Kapo (concentration camp)
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Kapo was a term used for certain prisoners who worked inside Nazi concentration camps during World War II in various lower administrative positions. The term is sometimes used to describe self-hating Jews and Jewish anti-Semites.
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See also
- Belsen Trial, the Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 others (former kapos, convicted in late 1945 for war crimes)
- Bitch Wars in the Soviet Gulag system
- Orli Wald, Lagerälteste at Auschwitz, called the "Angel of Auschwitz"
- Robert Siewert, kapo at Buchenwald
- Trusty system (prison)
- The Counterfeiters, a film which features several kapos, in various camps.
- Escape from Sobibor, a television movie which features a kapo helping prisoners escape from Sobibór extermination camp.
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