Isolator

The isolator encompassed two wooden barracks in 1946, which were cordoned off from the rest of the camp with a barbed-wire fence and were additionally monitored by the camp protection detail.

Whereas confinement in the "bunker" was a temporary punishment, inmates relegated to the isolator usually then spent the entirety of their sentence there. Initially the inmates of the isolator, who were considered exceptional flight risks, had to perform heavy physical labour. Later, they were prohibited from performing any kind of task and from having any contact with other inmates. The possibility of being placed back in the general inmate area remained open. In case of illness, a transfer to the infirmary required the approval of the Soviet camp doctor. In 1948 this form of isolator was discontinued.