Motivation In The Concentration Camp

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“I have more faith in Hitler than anyone else. He alone kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people." People in the concentration camps have no hope for the future. They have no faith in God to save them. Even though the rent near there hope of survival is a very low. But without hope and faith he cannot survive the camps. Without a reason to live what is the point of trying. Akiba who said "it's over. God is no longer with us.", could have survived if he kept his faith to God, he had been swept away by the selection. What the reason to live one cannot survive the camp. Only the strength from his father to live another day, to not lose hope.

I do not understand why there is a informatory in the concentration camp. Why are they

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