What were the dangers and benefits associated with trading food or clothing in the Auschwitz market?

The market connects the inmates with free German citizens, who come into contact with the forced labor camps for various reasons. Often, prisoners will steal items from camp stores and then trade these items with those who reside primarily outside of the camp. Of course, the final objective is nearly always additional food. Thus, free German citizens associated with the camp in some capacity can often trade scraps of food for expensive tools or goods; these items are, in general, then fenced at a huge profit. The process of obtaining more food than one is rationed is generically referred to as "organizing;" one "organizes" an additional slice of bread, or several men enter into an "organization" to pursue a mutually-beneficial relationship.Prisoners get food but are exploited for it.