Good morning/afternoon, today I will be speaking about Auschwitz, Josef Mengele and the experiments held there.
Auschwitz was the largest of all Nazi death camps and likely to be the most notorious of all. Opened in the spring of 1940, its first commandant was Rudolf Hoss, who had history running other concentration camps throughout Germany. During World War II, more than 1 million people lost their lives in Auschwitz. In January 1945, with the Soviet Army approaching, Nazi officials ordered the camp to be abandoned and sent an estimated 60,00 prisoners to other locations. When the soviets entered Auschwitz, they found thousands of dead bodies left behind.
Auschwitz was one of the main places prisoners were sent too. The experiments were believed to be for the betterment of the German Army and the Aryan race. For …show more content…
If you didn’t die in Auschwitz, you were extremely lucky. Almost no one got out alive but if you did, you would be haunted mentally for the rest of your life.
Kitty Hart Moxon is a survivor of Auschwitz. She gives us a look into what it might have been life in Auschwitz. In her article she explains just how taxing every single day was on the mental state of the prisoners. Holding on to hope and your sanity was the only way to survive Auschwitz, the rest was pure luck, being at the right place at the right time. She says she never gave up "You could see it in people's vacant expressions when they gave up – by the way they shuffled and stooped. You distanced yourself from these people, believing it was contagious. It was a ruthless place, the most unequal society in the world."
Before the Holocaust many of the men who experimented at Auschwitz were doctors and psychologists. One of the most famous being Josef Mengele who was nicknamed “The Angel of Death”.
Before Auschwitz, Mengele studied medicine at Goethe University and Philosophy at the University of
Auschwitz was the largest of all Nazi death camps and likely to be the most notorious of all. Opened in the spring of 1940, its first commandant was Rudolf Hoss, who had history running other concentration camps throughout Germany. During World War II, more than 1 million people lost their lives in Auschwitz. In January 1945, with the Soviet Army approaching, Nazi officials ordered the camp to be abandoned and sent an estimated 60,00 prisoners to other locations. When the soviets entered Auschwitz, they found thousands of dead bodies left behind.
Auschwitz was one of the main places prisoners were sent too. The experiments were believed to be for the betterment of the German Army and the Aryan race. For …show more content…
If you didn’t die in Auschwitz, you were extremely lucky. Almost no one got out alive but if you did, you would be haunted mentally for the rest of your life.
Kitty Hart Moxon is a survivor of Auschwitz. She gives us a look into what it might have been life in Auschwitz. In her article she explains just how taxing every single day was on the mental state of the prisoners. Holding on to hope and your sanity was the only way to survive Auschwitz, the rest was pure luck, being at the right place at the right time. She says she never gave up "You could see it in people's vacant expressions when they gave up – by the way they shuffled and stooped. You distanced yourself from these people, believing it was contagious. It was a ruthless place, the most unequal society in the world."
Before the Holocaust many of the men who experimented at Auschwitz were doctors and psychologists. One of the most famous being Josef Mengele who was nicknamed “The Angel of Death”.
Before Auschwitz, Mengele studied medicine at Goethe University and Philosophy at the University of