Organising

[Wise1]

Much of life in the camps for prisoners was of little or no possessions and even less food, soup was always the main course and only recently has it came to light that the soup in most camps was drugged to subdue the prisoners.

Possessions were Organized, this was the term given to the trading of items across the camp. It was most likely that most of the items were derived from the Victims of the chambers.

Coats, boots, bread were all Organized in the camp.

The members of the sonderkommando ad the best opportunity for Organizing items as they had access to all the possessions as soon as the victims dropped them to enter the shower area.

[Kiwiwriter]

The term "organizing" hung on after the war, when Displaced Persons stole or looted stuff they needed to survive. I think the Americans and British picked the phrase up from them, too.

[Kiwiwriter]

I'm beginning to think the phrase came from the German "Gleichshaltung," or "Organization" of the Reich after the Nazis took power. In the course of turning Germany into a police state, they eliminated democracy, and brought all organizations and people into the Party -- or the concentration camps.

[morse1001]

Originally Posted by Kiwiwriter

The term "organizing" hung on after the war, when Displaced Persons stole or looted stuff they needed to survive. I think the Americans and British picked the phrase up from them, too.

the British Forces had their own expressions, the main one was a arabic word Baksheesh which meant "Free or Gift" it was corrupted into Buckshee by the army but still meant the same. There was also the corruption "Gizit" short for Give it to us here". Anything that was stolen as a trophy, was often called a Gizit.