Certain prisoners, at first non-Jewish Germans but later Jews and non-Jewish Poles, were assigned positions of authority as "Funktionshäftlinge" (functionaries), which gave them access to better housing and food. The "Lagerprominenz" (camp elite) included "Blockschreiber" (barracks clerk), "Kapo" (overseer), "Stubendienst" (barracks orderly), and "Kommandierte" (trusties). Wielding tremendous power over other prisoners, the functionaries developed a reputation as sadists. Very few were prosecuted after the war, because of the difficulty of determining which atrocities had been performed by order of the SS.