I was watching a WWII documentary and saw a civilian with the letters K and L painted on his jacket, what did this signify?

by theBERZERKER13

Here's a picture I took of what I described http://imgur.com/xWGb2hK

OnkelEmil

KL was the bureaucratic abbreviation for Konzentrationslager (concentration camp), as opposed to the widely used "KZ". Could you please deliver some more context about the scene of your screenshot, I'd be happy to enlarge on the topic.