Camp Operation
The prisoners (women and men) were housed in wooden barracks and dug-outs with doors and stairs leading down from the ground level. The inmates were underfed and many starved to death, with daily mortality of around 10–15 people. Radomski ran a terror regime in the camp with the aid of Kommandant Anton Prokupek and a company of Sotniks. For the smallest misdemeanours he imposed heavy punishments and often struck the prisoners with the whip.
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