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What did the SS officers do to prevent the watchmen from building up local contacts or knowledge of the surrounding area?
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The SS officers were wary of the watchmen, limiting the amount of ammunition they could carry and transferring them frequently between different camps in order to prevent them from building up local contacts or knowledge of the surrounding area. Moreover, some watchmen were in fact sympathetic to the Jews, limiting their violence to the minimum possible and even assisting with prisoners’ escape attempts. In one documented instance, two watchmen named Victor Kisiljow and Wasyl Zischer escaped