| Kapo | |
|---|---|
| Location | Nazi camps in German-occupied Europe |
| Date | 1939–1945 |
| Incident type | Imprisonment, coercion, collaborationism |
| Perpetrators | SS-Totenkopfverbände (SS-TV) |
| Organizations | SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, Reich Security Main Office, Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle |
A kapo (German: Kapo) was one of prisoner functionaries (German: Funktionshäftlinge), a prisoner in a Nazi camp who was assigned by the SS guards to supervise forced labor or carry out administrative tasks.
After World War II, the term was reused as an insult; according to The Jewish Chronicle, it is "the worst insult a Jew can give another Jew".[1]