Quote:The concentration camp guards were not drafted soldiers. They were people volunteered to be in those positions.
I recall reading an article about this one time and the answer was, it varied. Some were party hacks who never did anything else except guard camps but others were soldiers, wehrmacht or SS, who had been wounded and were not considered fit for front-line service any more. Some were captured soldiers from the Polish/Russian/Balkan regions who were probably glad for a chance to get out of POW camps themselves and, as an added benefit, didn't like Jews either.
