OK zone
OK zone is within a Soviet POW camp , a separate area for limited able-bodied, weak and less sick prisoners of war .
The term OK is the abbreviation for the words Osdorowitelnaja Komanda (convalescence / convalescence command, Cyrillic: Оздоровительная команда, instead of command also: camp department - Лаготделение).
Those prisoners of war were considered to be conditionally fit for work if they were assigned to categories III and IV during inspections at intervals of a quarter to six months or because of urgency and, in contrast to those who were unrestrictedly fit for work in categories I and II, are only employed with light work or only four hours a day were allowed to. They mostly did cleaning and gardening work in the camp, carried out simple repairs, looked after and maintained the camp fencing or worked in the accommodation of the guards and officers as well as in administration.
Special hospitals (SpezHospital - СпецГоспиталь) were set up for the acutely critically ill and seriously injured, and were subordinate to the Ministry of Health .
The categorization was carried out by military doctors during series examinations on the basis of the "indecent grip". This involved reaching into the buttocks and making the assessment almost exclusively dependent on how long the meat could be steeped. In 1945 and 1946 in particular, people looked under the left armpit to identify former SS members based on blood group tattoos or scars .