title: The Strange and Curious History of the Law Used to Prosecute Adolf Eichmann
abstract: Strange and Curious History 419 functionaries were knows as capos or kapos. 11 A slang term originated by the inmates themselves, the word is attributable to various origins: kapo was short for kameradanpolizei or Katzet-Polizei ("head foremen") or derived from the Italian word capo, meaning "boss." 12 According to The Holocaust Encyclopedia, a kapo was the "[h]ead of a unit in a concentration camp.The term was also used to refer to any Nazi collaborator, although some kapos were not collaborato