The threat of the death penalty was always there, which created a constant state of emergency for Dachau's inmates.
There would be no system of checks and balances. The executive, judicial, and legislative parts of government were all placed together under the camp commandant's power. The accused prisoner would no longer have a defense. The Dachau Lagerordnung allowed prisoners to be executed based on a decision from two SS men who had been chosen by the commandant. It gave all legal powers to the camp commandant. Sometime in May 1933, SS camp commandant Hilmar Wäckerle wrote the first Lagerordnung for a concentration camp. However, Dachau was under the control of the SS. The early camps were primarily controlled by the SA or the Gestapo.
However, there was no corporal punishment. The early camps had penalties like having privileges taken away, or for more severe cases, solitary confinement, a hard bed, not being given food, or being left in solitary confinement in a darkened cell. The rules were still based on existing laws, and the camps were patterned after ordinary prisons. Some did not allow smoking others allowed prisoners to receive food parcels or visits from family members. There was not much difference between the rules at the early concentration camps. Instead, they took the Lagerordnung from rules that were often used in police departments and prisons at the time. These earlier camps did not have common, agreed-upon rules. Evolution of a new penal system Īt first, the Nazis had built temporary concentration camps, like Kemna concentration camp.
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