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Kapo

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[kah-poh] / ˈkɑ poʊ /
Or kapo

noun

  1. a Nazi concentration camp prisoner who was given privileges in return for supervising prisoner work gangs: often a common criminal and frequently brutal to fellow inmates.

Etymology

Origin of Kapo

< German, perhaps shortening of French caporal corporal 2

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