Detainee vs Pipel - What's the difference?
detainee | pipel |
(historical, rare) Among Nazi concentration camp detainees, an attractive male child who receives special favor or privileges by maintaining a relationship with another detainee who has been granted some authority over other detainees.
* 2001 , Frank Stiffel, The Oxymoron Factor 2 , pages 240 and 266:
* 2004 , Hermann Langbein, People in Auschwitz , page 405:
* 2005 , Laurence Rees, Auschwitz: a new history , page 98:
As nouns the difference between detainee and pipel
is that detainee is someone who is detained, especially in custody or confinement while pipel is people.pipel
English
Noun
(en noun)- He had a Polish Schreiber, a homosexual who was attended to by a Pipel , a German Gypsy who was the Schreiber's valet, his cook, his shoe shine boy, his lover, and his alternate, in which capacity he proved to be as much of a trouble to us as his boss.
- None of Kapo Rudi's three Pipels was German, but, knowing what was good for them, they learned all the songs by rote.
- A remedy for sexual distress that was customary in other concentration camps, in which no women were interned next to men, was frequently used in Auschwitz as well. Kapos kept Pipel , young fellows who in return for personal services were exempted from hard labor and enjoyed other privileges. Quite a number of capos abused their boys sexually.
- The young boy was a “pipel ”—camp slang for the young servant of a Kapo (and someone with whom the Kapo often had a homosexual relationship).