initially lacking sufficient manpower, the british allowed the hungarians to remain in charge and only commandant kramer was arrested. subsequently, ss and hungarian guards shot and killed some of the starving prisoners who were trying to get their hands on food supplies from the store houses. the british started to provide emergency medical care, clothing and food. immediately following the liberation, revenge killings took place in the satellite camp the ss had created in the area of the army barracks that later became hohne-camp. around 15,000 prisoners from mittelbau-dora had been relocated there in early april. these prisoners were in much better physical condition than most of the others. some of these men turned on those who had been their overseers at mittelbau. about 170 of these "kapos" were killed on april 15, 1945. on april 20, four german fighter planes attacked the camp, damaging the water supply and killing three british medical orderlies.