Auschwitz Testemony

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According to the testemony, the Nazis behaved very formal to the convicts, without too much privacy, either positive or negative (Levi, 12). It was also important fot the Nazis that prisoners who were supposed to work in labor camps to be healthy otherwise they were of no use (Levi, 13). The Nazis tried in a grotesque way to show their activities towards other races and nations, which they found to be the enemy, as positive. That is why at the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp they brought a group of writers to write a sign post 'work liberates'. (Left, 14) The Nazis referred to the prisoners within the work camps disparagingly in the sense that they tattooed numbers on their hands, that they ordered how to formally arrange in the

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