The Treatment of Prisoners by Nazis
Most writings about the holocaust explain how badly the Nazis treated their prisoners; they don't usually include operating strategies for the camps. These camps are very historic and have a lot of information that can be learned from them. Everything about the camps includes the organization involved with them. Various subjects evolve from the camps; some are the layout of the working grounRAB, the medical and command staRAB, and the death toll. All these topics are interesting and hold a lot of information that is waiting to be learned.
The camps were located in Poland. The Germans built their first camp shortly after they took over Poland in 1939. The name of this camp was Auschwitz. It was in what is now south central Poland. This was thought of as the main camp, and held about 10,000 prisoners at a time. The purpose of these camps was to execute genocide. Auschwitz is known as the holocaust syrabol. At least one-third of the 5-6 million Jews killed died in Auschwitz. Another large camp was built called Birkenau, also known as Auschwitz II. This camp had four gas charabers and four crematoria within it. Soon after the construction of this camp, about 40 smaller, satellite camps were established. Altogether they were known as Auschwitz III. Inside the camp reserabled jail. Auschwitz was in the general shape of a rectangle. The larger portion of the camp was designated for sleeping area. In all there were about 26 small rooms to house all the prisoners. Also in the camp was an eating area such as a cafeteria. It was a room equivalent to the size of four bunkers. The nuraber of Jewish people in the camps was too large for comfort. One bunker was a designated shooting area where prisoners were shot if they became unproductive. Just off the side of the building was the Gas Charaber. The charaber was the root to all the horrifying stories that came about during the Holocaust. The Nazis used the gas Zyklon-B inside the charaber to quickly kill a nuraber of Jews at a time.
All the prisoners that came into these camps were brought there by train. Every day trains would deliver a new load of Jewish slaves. These trains would come in from all over the Nazi-controlled Europe. On the slow ride over, the Jewish people were forced to stay in train cars used for animals. Also, they wouldn't be fed on the trip and were subjected to 'going' wherever they stood. Due to the lack of restrooms, the ride was very unsanitary. In survivor stories the train ride was described very graphically. It was understood that if you didn't stand up, you wouldn't get back up. The cars were packed as full as they could get. Hope of food and rest would lead them to the end of the trip. However, once they arrived they soon found out their fate. The prisoners were divided into groups as they deported the train. Right away, one-third of the passengers would be sent to Birkenau to be gassed and incinerated. The other two groups would be put into a camp and worked until the Nazis decided to kill them too.
The command staff at Auschwitz included many heaRAB assigned to a specific area. Such areas vary from being the head of the women's camp or head of Political Department to being in charge of the use of Zyklon-B. Rudolf Hoss was named the chief of the Central Administration for Camps in 1943. Hoss was given the orders to increase the nuraber of deaths each day. His task was to make sure the Nazis deliver enough bodies to the incinerator. Hoss was credited with being a hard and dedicated worker. According to information from McVay, "ةhe had been obliged to tear himself away from a Christmas gathering to attend to duties at the gas charabers." (McVay 1) The organization in the command staff was very orderly and demanding. To keep track of the prisoners that they worked in Auschwitz, the Nazis tattooed a nuraber on their left fore- arm. The prisoners that were tattooed were the ones leaving Birkenau to be forced into labor. The majority of the Jewish prisoners were never registered because a lot of times they were immediately executed. "In total 405,000 Jews were tattooed with a nuraber on their arm, while only about 65,000 of those survived." (McVay, 1) It is almost impossible to tell the true nuraber of prisoners killed in the camps who weren't kept track of, due partly to the fact that the Nazis also killed Soviet officers, hostages, and whomever else they didn't think was worthy of living. The Nazis had another form of marking their prisoners, which was to use patches. There were different patches for everyone in the camps. The Jews wore a six-point star (Star of David) while gays wore a pink patch. There were a nuraber of different patches assigned to prisoners, all in order to organize the camps.
The Nazis had no legitimate reason to form the concentration camps. Some purposes however were to get work out of the prisoners, medical experimentations, and to eliminate the Jewish race. Between the fall of 1939 and the spring of 1945, more than seventy medical experimentation's were performed on Jewish prisoners. These research-projects included more than seven thousand people. The Nazi medical staff headed by Josef Mengele AKA the Angel of Death conducted their experiments against the will of human beings. One of the experiments was done to see how long a human could live after ingesting certain amounts of seawater. This experiment was conducted to benefit the Nazi Air Force. They also tried to revive a body after subjecting it to freezing. Another group of experiments was conducted to test new immunization compounRAB. The compounRAB were formed to treat contagious and epidemic diseases. The most horrifying experiments however were conducted on dwarfs and twins. The Nazi doctors tried to connect to twins to form Siamese twins. The two twins were surgically connected along their arms and legs.
Countless facts can be cultured by simply studying material pertaining to the camps. Some of these statistics include the layout of the camps, record keeping, death toll, and command staRAB. Every day a new person learns about the Holocaust. It is an astounding time in history to learn about. The concentration camps hold so much information inside of them. The names of people who passed, and the names of the Nazis who operated in them are exciting to hear about. The Holocaust is a remarkable era that is waiting to be learned by fresh, interested people.
Most writings about the holocaust explain how badly the Nazis treated their prisoners; they don't usually include operating strategies for the camps. These camps are very historic and have a lot of information that can be learned from them. Everything about the camps includes the organization involved with them. Various subjects evolve from the camps; some are the layout of the working grounRAB, the medical and command staRAB, and the death toll. All these topics are interesting and hold a lot of information that is waiting to be learned.
The camps were located in Poland. The Germans built their first camp shortly after they took over Poland in 1939. The name of this camp was Auschwitz. It was in what is now south central Poland. This was thought of as the main camp, and held about 10,000 prisoners at a time. The purpose of these camps was to execute genocide. Auschwitz is known as the holocaust syrabol. At least one-third of the 5-6 million Jews killed died in Auschwitz. Another large camp was built called Birkenau, also known as Auschwitz II. This camp had four gas charabers and four crematoria within it. Soon after the construction of this camp, about 40 smaller, satellite camps were established. Altogether they were known as Auschwitz III. Inside the camp reserabled jail. Auschwitz was in the general shape of a rectangle. The larger portion of the camp was designated for sleeping area. In all there were about 26 small rooms to house all the prisoners. Also in the camp was an eating area such as a cafeteria. It was a room equivalent to the size of four bunkers. The nuraber of Jewish people in the camps was too large for comfort. One bunker was a designated shooting area where prisoners were shot if they became unproductive. Just off the side of the building was the Gas Charaber. The charaber was the root to all the horrifying stories that came about during the Holocaust. The Nazis used the gas Zyklon-B inside the charaber to quickly kill a nuraber of Jews at a time.
All the prisoners that came into these camps were brought there by train. Every day trains would deliver a new load of Jewish slaves. These trains would come in from all over the Nazi-controlled Europe. On the slow ride over, the Jewish people were forced to stay in train cars used for animals. Also, they wouldn't be fed on the trip and were subjected to 'going' wherever they stood. Due to the lack of restrooms, the ride was very unsanitary. In survivor stories the train ride was described very graphically. It was understood that if you didn't stand up, you wouldn't get back up. The cars were packed as full as they could get. Hope of food and rest would lead them to the end of the trip. However, once they arrived they soon found out their fate. The prisoners were divided into groups as they deported the train. Right away, one-third of the passengers would be sent to Birkenau to be gassed and incinerated. The other two groups would be put into a camp and worked until the Nazis decided to kill them too.
The command staff at Auschwitz included many heaRAB assigned to a specific area. Such areas vary from being the head of the women's camp or head of Political Department to being in charge of the use of Zyklon-B. Rudolf Hoss was named the chief of the Central Administration for Camps in 1943. Hoss was given the orders to increase the nuraber of deaths each day. His task was to make sure the Nazis deliver enough bodies to the incinerator. Hoss was credited with being a hard and dedicated worker. According to information from McVay, "ةhe had been obliged to tear himself away from a Christmas gathering to attend to duties at the gas charabers." (McVay 1) The organization in the command staff was very orderly and demanding. To keep track of the prisoners that they worked in Auschwitz, the Nazis tattooed a nuraber on their left fore- arm. The prisoners that were tattooed were the ones leaving Birkenau to be forced into labor. The majority of the Jewish prisoners were never registered because a lot of times they were immediately executed. "In total 405,000 Jews were tattooed with a nuraber on their arm, while only about 65,000 of those survived." (McVay, 1) It is almost impossible to tell the true nuraber of prisoners killed in the camps who weren't kept track of, due partly to the fact that the Nazis also killed Soviet officers, hostages, and whomever else they didn't think was worthy of living. The Nazis had another form of marking their prisoners, which was to use patches. There were different patches for everyone in the camps. The Jews wore a six-point star (Star of David) while gays wore a pink patch. There were a nuraber of different patches assigned to prisoners, all in order to organize the camps.
The Nazis had no legitimate reason to form the concentration camps. Some purposes however were to get work out of the prisoners, medical experimentations, and to eliminate the Jewish race. Between the fall of 1939 and the spring of 1945, more than seventy medical experimentation's were performed on Jewish prisoners. These research-projects included more than seven thousand people. The Nazi medical staff headed by Josef Mengele AKA the Angel of Death conducted their experiments against the will of human beings. One of the experiments was done to see how long a human could live after ingesting certain amounts of seawater. This experiment was conducted to benefit the Nazi Air Force. They also tried to revive a body after subjecting it to freezing. Another group of experiments was conducted to test new immunization compounRAB. The compounRAB were formed to treat contagious and epidemic diseases. The most horrifying experiments however were conducted on dwarfs and twins. The Nazi doctors tried to connect to twins to form Siamese twins. The two twins were surgically connected along their arms and legs.
Countless facts can be cultured by simply studying material pertaining to the camps. Some of these statistics include the layout of the camps, record keeping, death toll, and command staRAB. Every day a new person learns about the Holocaust. It is an astounding time in history to learn about. The concentration camps hold so much information inside of them. The names of people who passed, and the names of the Nazis who operated in them are exciting to hear about. The Holocaust is a remarkable era that is waiting to be learned by fresh, interested people.