Camp Guards
Bełżec camp guards included Germans (Volksdeutsche) and former Soviet prisoners of war.
Before they were sent as guards to the concentration camps, most Soviet POWs who served as camp guards underwent special training in Trawniki, originally a holding center for refugees and Soviet POWs whom the Security Police and SD had designated potential collaborators or dangerous persons.
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