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Stufe •2 For persons under heavy sentence, but who are still
(Grade 2) suitable for rehabilitation and correction (BUCHENWALD,
FLOSSEN4RG and NEUDTGASIO.
Stufe 3 - For persons under heavy sentence, especially marked
(Grade 3) criminals designated as anti-socials and incorrigible
(MAUTHAUSEN).
• Exceptions to Stufe laare those aged and unfit inmates who
reqUire medical, supervision and who, therefore, remain in the
sections provided at the respective camps.
It is now known that two other categories have been .added:
namely,Nacht undNebel aftlinge (see pars. 5); and Faoharbeiter
•(skilled workers).
Later developments, however, have necessitated deviation from
this plan. From an examination of recent documents, it appears
that inmates, even though assigned according to the gradation plan,
are now transferred from one camp to another-solely According to
their working capabilities and the needs of the various economic
enterprises run by the WVHA (see pare 11). It has also been
established that many,Bibelforscher (Religious Criminals) are used
•as "guinea pigs" for medical research.
h- Number of Camps and Inmates
•
Comprehensive reports on concentration Camps., including
estimates of the number of inmates in KLs, the number of camps in
Germany and German-held areas and the number of men engaged in
operating, administering and guarding these camps are not available
as yet.
The number of KIis in Germany has been estimated at various
times during 1941, 1942 and 1943 to total Prom about fifteen to
seventy-five, although, a total of more then a hundred camp sites
has been reported (see also pars. 2). The capacity of KLs in
Germakv is thought to be about 500,000.
A report, dated October 1943, concerning the camps in Poland,
spoke of the existence of 109 camps in that country, divided into
the following types:-
Nine Transit Camps
Twenty-four KLs
Three large 'Forced Labour Camps
Sixty smaller Forced. Labour Canipa
Three Camps for Priests
Nine Camps for Jews
One Camp for "Improvement of the Nordic Race".
Unconfirmed reports have .estimated the number of Germans who
have been inmates at various tineo during the years 1933 to 1944 to
be between 750,000 and 1,300,000. Records showed that the camp
at WATZWEILER, recently overrun by the Allies, bad at one time
housed approximately 25,000 inmates.
The number of KL inmates in Germany proper, at present, is
generally estimated to total between 300,000 and 500,000. Of this
number, a high percentage is believed to consist of "pure" Germans,
as defined by Nazi law.
In 1942, it vas reported that SS men, in conversation among
themselves, guessed the number of Germans then in "protective
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