Editing Nacht und Nebel (section)

==Treatment of prisoners==
[[File:US Holocaust Memorial Museum - Boxcar.jpg|thumb|Replica of a [[Holocaust trains|Holocaust train]] [[covered goods wagon]] used by Nazi Germany to transport [[History of the Jews during World War II|Jews]] and other [[Holocaust victims|victims]] during the Holocaust]]
The ''Nacht und Nebel'' prisoners' hair was shaved, and the women were given a convict costume of a thin cotton dress, wooden sandals, and a triangular black headcloth. According to historian Wolfgang Sofsky:

<blockquote>Prisoners of the ''Nacht und Nebel'' transports were marked by broad red bands; on their backs and both trouser legs was a cross, with the letters "NN" to its right. From these emblems, it was possible to recognize immediately what class a prisoner belonged to and how he or she was pigeonholed and evaluated by the SS.<ref>Sofsky (1997). ''The Order of Terror: The Concentration Camp'', p. 118.</ref></blockquote>

The prisoners were often moved apparently at random from prison to prison such as [[Fresnes Prison]] in Paris, [[Waldheim, Saxony|Waldheim]] near [[Dresden]], [[Leipzig]], [[Potsdam]], [[Lübeck]], and [[Stettin]]. The deportees were sometimes herded 80 at a time with standing room only into slow-moving, dirty [[cattle wagon]]s with little or no food or water on journeys lasting up to five days to their next unknown destination.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/01-25-46.asp |title=Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Vol. 6 |publisher=Avalon.law.yale.edu |access-date=2013-08-05}}</ref>

At the camps, the prisoners were forced to stand for hours in freezing and wet conditions at 5:00&nbsp;a.m. every morning, standing strictly to attention, before being sent to work a twelve-hour day with only a twenty-minute break for a scant meal. They were confined in cold and starving conditions; many had dysentery or other illnesses, and the weakest were often beaten to death, shot, guillotined, or hanged, while the others were subjected to torture by the Germans.<ref name="Nichol-Rennell">Nichol, John and Rennell, Tony (2007). ''Escape from Nazi Europe'', Penguin Books.</ref>

When the inmates were totally exhausted or if they were too ill or too weak to work, they were then transferred to the [[Revier (Nazi concentration camps)|Revier]] (''Krankenrevier'', sick barrack) or other places for extermination. If a camp did not have a [[gas chamber]] of its own, the so-called [[Muselmann|''Muselmänner'']], or prisoners who were too sick to work, were often murdered or transferred to other concentration camps for extermination.<ref name="Nichol-Rennell"/>

When the Allies liberated [[Paris]] and [[Brussels]], the [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] transported many of its remaining ''Nacht und Nebel'' prisoners to concentration camps deeper in Nazi-controlled territory, such as [[Ravensbrück concentration camp]] for women, [[Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp]], [[Buchenwald concentration camp]], [[Schloss Hartheim]], or [[Flossenbürg concentration camp]].<ref name="Traveler's Guide">{{in lang|en}} {{cite book|author=Marc Terrance|title=Concentration Camps: Guide to World War II Sites|year=1999|publisher=Universal Publishers|isbn=1-58112-839-8| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TNt9IVBVeNQC&pg=PA142 }}</ref>