was located at what was then Gęsia Street 24. The former military prison and Judenrat seat, at what is today 17a, served as a crematorium, where bodies of dead inmates and executed civilians from outside the camp were incinerated. The Germans also started building two other cremation sites, but did not manage to open them before they evacuated the camp; even the one that existed was not operated in the camp's final days. In addition to that, one of Gęsiówka's buildings was used as a torture room, while a prison yard came to be an SS officers' mess. A bathhouse was built in late 1943 and early 1944, and bunkers were also available on-site. By February 1944 the camp's infrastructure was in an advanced stage of completion, with 90% of Lager I finished and 75% of Lager II, (Berenstein gives figures of 95% and 60%, respectively) but due to the recurring typhus epidemic, which decimated the population and forced the camp's administration to quarantine the inmates twice (in January and February 1944, see below, and again in April and May), the camp was only completed in June 1944. Personnel Initially, about 380 SS soldiers were maintaining the concentration camp, approximately the size of a company. The number of SS guards was relatively low, as the former ghetto, itself a closed zone, was surrounded by patrolled walls, and due to the fact that the prisoner functionaries were Germans from the initial transport and were thus delegated much more power than was usual for their counterparts in other camps. The original SS unit was gathered from various other camps, including the Trawniki concentration camp and the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Following the attachment to Majdanek in May 1944, they were replaced with SS personnel from Lublin, and the guard was reduced to 259 people. The leadership positions were occupied by high- and middle-ranking SS members who were pre-war Third Reich citizens (Reichsdeutsche), while the rank-and-file were usually recruited among the Volksdeutsche, mainly from Southeast Europe but also from other areas. In comparison with other concentration camps, KL Warschau had a less sophisticated internal structure. Bogusław Kopka writes that the camp lacked the political department (Politische Abteilung), and some other positions remained unoccupied; though the Institute of National Remembrance's report on the investigation of the crimes committed in KL Warschau notes that the Politische Abteilung did exist, but it was directly subordinate to the