Auschwitz Concentration Camp Essay

”Feet sank into a sticky bog at every step. There was hardly any water for washing. The prisoners slept, six in a bed, on wooden planks placed in three tiers. Most of the beds were without straw pallets. The roll call held twice daily meant standing for hours in wet and cold weather with mire underfoot...no wonder that several hundred died everyday,” said Pery Broad, a soldier from the famous concentration camp Auschwitz. Auschwitz is a well known concentration camp where prisoners were in constant fear and forced into cruel work and torture.
Auschwitz is a well known, sadistic concentration camp. The first prisoner arrived June 14, 1990 and closed 5 years later. Auschwitz was the most lethal camp of all Nazi concentration camps and came to be known as the perfect example of the “final solution”, Hitler’s plan. In the course of time in between its opening and closing, 1.1-1.5 million prisoners died there, Ninety percent of them being Jews. At Auschwitz’s peak, they killed 8,000 daily at only one of

By 1944, more than forty thousand prisoners were working at Buna-Monowitz for various industries. One of the work camps forced the prisoners to make synthetic rubber and many war different supplies for long hours. They hardly ever were given breaks. A group of prisoners, war officers, were shot randomly throughout their work as a way to entertain the soldiers. When they were not working, the were being experimented on, especially the women. The women were used in many inhumane trials of sterilization techniques including taking risky and unhealthy medication that, therefore, made them sick multiple times each day. In addition to the women, the men were included in the experimentation as well. They had different poisonous items put on them to see how they would react. Furthermore, they were introduced to high levels of radiation to see how it affects a person in high