Complex sentence: As the Americans near, the SS plan to evacuate the camp, ordering camp elder Krämer, who is the communists' secret leader, to organize the prisoners, as well as to hand over a list of inmates for execution.
Split into simpler sentences: As the Americans near, the SS plan to evacuate the camp. They order camp elder Krämer, who is the communists' secret leader, to organize the prisoners, as well as to hand over a list of inmates for execution.