
The number of prisoners steadily increased over the course of 1938. As part of the "Arbeitsscheu Reich" (ARS) initiative—targeting "work-shy" persons in the German Reich—the police sent more than 4,000 men to the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in April and June, where the SS registered them as "ASR" inmates. Under the guise such arrests, hundreds of Sinti and Roma and over a thousand Jews were deported to Buchenwald. In October 1938, the number of inmates surpassed 10,000 for the first time. After the November pogroms, an additional 9,845 Jewish men were deported to the