sentences:  Other prisoners, mainly forced laborers and POWs, were sent from Poland and the Soviet Union.Starting on December 7, 1941, when the Night and Fog directive was signed, "NN" prisoners transited through Hinzert on the way to larger concentration camps, such as Natzweiler, Dachau or Buchenwald where they would eventually "disappear".Many Hinzert prisoners were also used as slave labourers in SS subcamps spread out in the surrounding region.