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Prisoner file with note on penalties at the concentration camp

The Lagerordnung (the "Disciplinary and Penal Code") was a set of rules for punishing prisoners at Dachau concentration camp in Nazi Germany. On January 1, 1934, the Lagerordnung became the official rules of every concentration camp in Nazi Germany.

Also known as the Strafkatalog (Punishment Catalogue), it set out the rules the prisoners had to follow. SS guards were told to report to the camp commandant when a prisoner broke a rule.

The Concentration Camps Inspectorate was in charge of carrying out punishment. They did this without making sure the prisoner had actually broken the rule. Once they were accused, prisoners had no way of proving themselves innocent.

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    Postcard from a prisoner at Dachau, with detailed rules for correspondence

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    Punishment horse for flogging, Dachau concentration camp

  • KZ Dachau - Inside the Bunker

    The "Bunker" at Dachau, the camp "prison"

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    Detention area at Sachsenhausen

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