Subcamp
Outlying Nazi detention center under the command of a main concentration camp / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Subcamp (disambiguation).
Subcamps,[lower-alpha 1] officially Arbeitslager der Waffen-SS, were outlying detention centres (Haftstätten) that came under the command of a main concentration camp run by the SS in Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe. The Nazis distinguished between the main camps (or Stammlager) and the subcamps (Außenlager or Außenkommandos) subordinated to them. Survival conditions in the subcamps were, in many cases, poorer for the prisoners than those in the main camps.[5][6][7][2]