“I do not see why man cannot be as cruel as nature.” -Adolf Hitler. This quote shows the relationship between Hitler and his army, with the Jews. How this man did this was with concentration camps. And by far the worst one, was Auschwitz.
Auschwitz was a concentration camp that was considered the people's ‘death camp’. The concentration camp opened in old Polish Army barracks in June 1940. About 20 brick buildings were becoming, of which 6 were 2-story buildings and 14 single-stories. Towards the end of 1940, prisoners began continuing to add second stories to the single-story blocks. The next Spring, they began constructing 8 new blocks. This construction was completed in the first half of 1942. The result was a complex of 28 two-story blocks, the overwhelming majority of which were used to house prisoners (www.auschwitz.org).
During the first couple of months, the rooms of the prisoners had no beds or furniture of any type. They slept on mattresses that were filled with straw that lay on the floor. Once the signal woke them up, they were forced to stack the mattresses into a corner of the rooms. The rooms were way too overcrowded that the prisoners were only to sleep on their sides, because of all the crowding, in 3 rows (www.auschwitz.org). Imagine yourself in that tiny room surrounded by other people, only able to sleep on your side. Not able to move off of your side without a guard noticing, and lashing you, or even killing you. These people were so cruel to them, so people had families but they didn’t care. They did it anyways.
About the first year or so at Auschwitz, the water that the guards drank and the prisoners rarely drank, was located in Sector B1, the kitchen barracks, where the prisoners were not allowed under any circumstances. Unable to wash themselves, they were forced to go around dirty. They had to perform their bodily process in an un-private toilet area. The barracks were mostly wet. They were filled with lice and rodents, more specifically rats, which was a massive problem for the prisoners, and Auschwitz itself (www.auschwitz.org).
This chapter was about Auschwitz and the life there. As you can see, it is only common sense to conclude that Auschwitz was an awful, awful place filled with cruel people that didn’t care about you or anything. Whoever survived Auschwitz, they way that they lived stills lingers with them everyday. Petrified of what they called “home” for many years.
Auschwitz was a concentration camp that was considered the people's ‘death camp’. The concentration camp opened in old Polish Army barracks in June 1940. About 20 brick buildings were becoming, of which 6 were 2-story buildings and 14 single-stories. Towards the end of 1940, prisoners began continuing to add second stories to the single-story blocks. The next Spring, they began constructing 8 new blocks. This construction was completed in the first half of 1942. The result was a complex of 28 two-story blocks, the overwhelming majority of which were used to house prisoners (www.auschwitz.org).
During the first couple of months, the rooms of the prisoners had no beds or furniture of any type. They slept on mattresses that were filled with straw that lay on the floor. Once the signal woke them up, they were forced to stack the mattresses into a corner of the rooms. The rooms were way too overcrowded that the prisoners were only to sleep on their sides, because of all the crowding, in 3 rows (www.auschwitz.org). Imagine yourself in that tiny room surrounded by other people, only able to sleep on your side. Not able to move off of your side without a guard noticing, and lashing you, or even killing you. These people were so cruel to them, so people had families but they didn’t care. They did it anyways.
About the first year or so at Auschwitz, the water that the guards drank and the prisoners rarely drank, was located in Sector B1, the kitchen barracks, where the prisoners were not allowed under any circumstances. Unable to wash themselves, they were forced to go around dirty. They had to perform their bodily process in an un-private toilet area. The barracks were mostly wet. They were filled with lice and rodents, more specifically rats, which was a massive problem for the prisoners, and Auschwitz itself (www.auschwitz.org).
This chapter was about Auschwitz and the life there. As you can see, it is only common sense to conclude that Auschwitz was an awful, awful place filled with cruel people that didn’t care about you or anything. Whoever survived Auschwitz, they way that they lived stills lingers with them everyday. Petrified of what they called “home” for many years.