List of "return unwanted" concentration camp prisoners
This article is a list of prisoners of Nazi concentration camps designated return unwanted, which was used to forbid their release and indicate that their death was desired by the Nazi regime.
| Name | Born | Died | Reason | Result |
| 1876 | 1967 | Opposition to the regime | Survived Messelager Köln, Cologne-Hohenlind Hospital and Brauweiler. Avoided transport to Buchenwald by faking illness | |
| 1915 | 2006 | Austrian Resistance activist | Survived Ravensbrück | |
| 1870 | 1942 | Founder of the Czech Unitarian Church, listened to the BBC | Died at Dachau | |
| 1895 | 1942 | Czechoslovak Resistance fighter | Died at Mauthausen | |
| 1896 | 1976 | German Resistance member | Survived Mauthausen and Flossenbürg | |
| 1892 | 1944 | Leader of the Bratislava Working Group, an illegal Jewish organization that tried to rescue European Jews, especially Slovak Jews, from the Holocaust | Deported to Auschwitz 18 October 1944, led away by SS guards and never seen again | |
| 1890 | 1975 | Survived Mauthausen and Flossenbürg | ||
| 1914 | 2000 | Luxembourg Resistance member | Survived Hinzert, Sachsenhausen and Mauthausen | |
| 1901 | 1983 | Graphic artist; with other artists, smuggled drawings about the Holocaust into neutral countries | Survived Auschwitz and Sachsenhausen | |
| 1919 | 2008 | German Resistance fighter involved in 20 July plot | Survived Sachsenhausen | |
| 1908 | 1942 | Czechoslovak Resistance member | Killed at Mauthausen | |
| 1901 | 1994 | Austrian Resistance activist | Survived Ravensbrück | |
| 1904 | 1972 | Witnessed the Lidice massacre | Escaped from Auschwitz 5 April 1944 with the help of an SS guard | |
| 1915 | 2007 | German Resistance fighter | Survived Ravensbrück, Natzweiler-Struthof and Munich-Allach | |
| 1921 | 2009 | Austrian Resistance activist | Survived Auschwitz and Ravensbrück | |
| 1920 | 2019 | Polish [resistance movement in World War II|Polish Resistance] member | Survived Ravensbrück | |
| 1915 | 1944 | German Resistance fighter | Killed himself at Mittelbau-Dora | |
| 1911 | 1984 | German Resistance fighter | Survived Dachau, Natzweiler-Struthof and Buchenwald | |
| 1923 | 1944 | Relationship with a Polish forced laborer resulting in pregnancy | Died at Ravensbrück | |
| 1920 | 2013 | German Resistance member; wrote anti-war letters to soldiers | Survived Fuhlsbüttel and Ravensbrück | |
| 1914 | 2003 | Subversive statements and listening to foreign radio stations | Survived Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme | |
| 1919 | 2000 | German Resistance member; daughter of Ernst Thälmann | Survived Ravensbrück |