Criminal department

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Instruction of a homosexual in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp and assignment to the punishment company " shoe runner "

Penal departments (also penal company or penal section) were military organizations in fortresses or colonies that were used to take in people who on the one hand were considered unworthy of service or who on the other hand were threatened with a longer prison term .

Divisions of the first kind were also called disciplinary companies. Due to the selection of the teams, the penal departments were never very extensive, so at the beginning of the 20th century there was only one penal department, which was stationed in Spandau and assigned to the 5th Guard Regiment. It had the designation "Disciplinary Department of the Guard Corps ".

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concentration camps - hard work at a run, even after the official end of work and on Sunday afternoons, when food was withdrawn, as a form of severe abuse by Kapos and SS , see penal company (Auschwitz concentration camp) .

See also

• Penal company (Auschwitz concentration camp)
• Probation Battalion
• Penal Division 500 of the Wehrmacht
• Penal Division 999 of the Wehrmacht
• SS special unit Dirlewanger (poaching command)
• NVA military prison in Schwedt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Concentration Camps and Mass Destruction, p. 24. ( Memento from November 22, 2009 in the Internet Archive )