Prisoners marked in the camp with a black triangle. The decision to incarcerate them in the camp was made by German criminal police posts on the basis of charges of vagrancy, alcoholism, prostitution, pimping, dodging work, and in fact many other deeds and behaviors that the police treated rather loosely. In the camp, their position differed little from that of criminal prisoners—the SS appointed them frequently to the functionary posts of Kapo and block elder. For other reasons, Gypsies (Roma) were also formally classed as asocial, although their status in the camp was completely different. In August 1944, Auschwitz held 437 Germans, 141 Poles, and 32 Czechs in the asocial category.

(Mini dictionary of terms from the history of Auschwitz)