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How were kapos like the camp administration, and how were they like the other prisoners? Use details from the memoir to support your answer.

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MrsTate

The Kapos are in charge of the blocks. They each have a certain group of prisoners that they are to keep in line. Elie Wiesel and his father are first chosen by the Kapo in charge of the orchestra block. In this leadership role, the Kapos are very much like other prisoners. During the hanging, Wiesel even describes the Kapos as "bureaucrats in the service of death" (67). In this way, Wiesel is putting some blame on the Kapos for the horrors that happen in camp. The Kapos are also like other prisoners. They are not respected by the SS officers or any Nazi soldier. The Kapos are subject to selection just like the rest of the prisoners. Wiesel describes what happens during the selection when he says, "The first to go were the "notables" of the block, the Stubenalteste, the Kapos, the foremen, all of whom were in perfect physical  condition, of course! Then came the ordinary prisoners' turns" (72).  In this scene, the prisoners are going through a selection including the Kapos because they are prisoners.

annyksl

The kapos looked like bureaucrats, according to Wiesel, but they were just very abusive prisoners.

Although you didn't show it, your question refers to the book "Night" written by Ellie Wiesel.

By reading this book, we can see that:

  • Wiesel recounts the moments when he lived in a Nazi concentration camp.
  • He comments on the kapos who were Jewish prisoners selected as a type of "police" within the camps.
  • According to Wiesel, the kapos acted as bureaucrats in the service of death, carrying out the tasks that the Germans determined with violence and cruelty.

Even in the service of the Germans, the kapos were not treated with respect and were without protection from the Nazis.

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