criminal element?Where can

Question: In Nazi germany,what happened to the German gangster/criminal element!?Where can I find info on this!?

NOTE:I'm NOT talking about the more famous Nazi war criminals such as Himmler,Goebells,etc!.,but thieves,drug dealers,robbers,pimps and the like!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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In 1933, the law to suppress professional crime was passed!. (Gesetz zur Bek?mpfung des Berufsverbrechertums)!.According to this law, anyone who was considered a professional criminal because of former felonies could be imprisoned immediately!. The prisoners were usually sent to penal camps (Strafgefangenenlager) (but not to death camps, as the first answerer wrote)!.

http://www!.diz-emslandlager!.de/english/c!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

all these things still thrived within the third reich!. they obviously had to more discrete about things due to the regime that was in place!. Already someone has already mentioned the infamous penal battalions more undesirables!. Some good reading on this is, the Novels by Sven Hassell, where they frequent look at the under class within the third reich, in between bouts of fighting on the eastern front!Www@QuestionHome@Com

Criminals like that were given short thrift by the Nazi's and were often executed or more commonly sent to concentration camps!.
When the war became more intense a lot were put into penal battalions which were always at the front of any attack and at the rear of any defence!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Penal (also Disciplinary or Punishment) Battalions and the Dirlewanger Brigade

http://books!.google!.co!.uk/books!?id=U768e!.!.!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

they were rounded up and sent to death camps, that was one of the first things he did ,along with the gays gypsies and so on

http://frank!.mtsu!.edu/~baustin/holocamp!.!.!.!.

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They joined the Nazi Party!.Www@QuestionHome@Com