 A concentration camp commander could as early as in 1933 inflict the "death penalty" for disobedience, i. e. order to murder a disobedient inmate, without any legal ground whatsoever besides the will of Heinrich Himmler, but also without meeting opposition.Himmler himself offered an honorable way out for members of the SS who were convicted of capital crimes-they were locked in a room with a revolver and one live round, then given several hours to use it.After their deaths any surviving family were given pensions.