prisoners were not allowed to work on ordnance . tortured.
They were held as prisoners of war. What that entailed depended upon the "enemy" who caught them. In Britain we often made prisoners of war work, but on the whole we treated them fairly well. In Japan many prisoners were treated extremely badly and were frequently tortured.
This work was done by prisoners bullied into helping the SS in this way.
If the question is about prisoners held in the Nazi German Concentration Camps during the Second World War, then anyone of them not fit to work for the Nazis were sent to the Gas Chambers (or other methods) to be killed. Those fit to work, were used as slave labor until they were starved or worked to death.
* At Auschwitz (from early 1942 on) the Jews were separated into fit for work and not fit for work. The latter were gassed as soon as possible, the former had to work as slave labourers. * At othe extermination camps, such as Sobibor and Treblinka, a small number of new arrivals were selected to help dispose of the corpses. * At ordinary concentration camps the newly arrived prisoners were sent off to work - as slave labour. * At some ordinary concentration camps, especially in the early days, there were 'initiation ceremonies', including severe beatings, for new arrivals.
Able bodied prisoners had to work as slave labourers.
The only Nazi camp that tattooed prisoners was the Auschwitz group, where prisoners selected for work were tattooed. Prisoners at other camps and those sent immediately to be gassed at Auschwitz were not tattooed.
prisoners were not allowed to work on ordnance . tortured.
They could be put to work on non-war related activities under the Geneva Convention. Many were put to work growing food for the use of the prisoners.
Georgia was founded as a refuge for debtor prisoners to work and pay off their debts.
Idek the kapo made the prisoners work in the warehouse on a Sunday for his own amusement and to assert his power over them. He was known to be unpredictable and often took pleasure in humiliating the prisoners by making them work even on days of rest.
The holocaust prisoners worked from dusk till dawn. 12 hours a day.
They used their prisoners and slaves to work building and making things until they die for want of air and light.
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They used their prisoners and slaves to work building and making things until they die for want of air and light.
They used their prisoners and slaves to work building and making things until they die for want of air and light.