Did you know that there were 40,000 concentration camps and incarceration sites throughout Europe during the Holocaust? In this report, I am going to focus on the concentration camp, Natzweiler-Struthof. I am also going to focus on the prisoner’s routine, how they died, and the medical experiments performed.
Prisoners in concentration camps had a fairly good routine schedule for their days’ activities. Every morning the inmates were woken up at 4 A.M. and had to make their straw bed, in a military manner, and then they must go to the sanitary facility with hundreds of prisoners all waiting for their turn. For breakfast, they were given approximately ten ounces of bread with, what the Kapo called, coffee. Sometimes, if a person was …show more content…
It is estimated that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, around 2.7 million Jews were murdered during 1942 alone. In the concentration camp, Natzweiler-Struthof, from May 1941 to March 1945, between 19,000 and 20,000 people died. Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, socialists, and others were tortured and murdered. When the first gas chamber was made operational, about 130 Jews were gassed. Afterwards, they were sent to the Strasbourg University Institute of Anatomy, where Dr. August Hirt studied Jewish skeletons in order to establish Jewish “racial inferiority” by means of anthropological study. Another method for eliminating the Jews was hangings during the afternoon roll call. Other prisoners were beaten to death, shot for not being quick enough, starved to death, frozen to death, or died from medical experiments. During the course of 1944, members of the French Resistance were among the prisoners brought to Natzweiler. Most of them were killed upon arrival. Remaining resistance group prisoners were sent to work in the quarry or on road construction, where work conditions were the …show more content…
Gypsies were also used for deadly experiments. The scientists recorded effects of gas when applied directly to the skin, inhaled, or injected. These experiments caused tremendous pain, as they slowly destroyed the subjects' organs, until their eventual death. Other experiments, at Natzweiler, included studying the effects of typhus vaccines and epidemic jaundice. They would take twins, pour acid on one to see what might happen to the other. Doctors performed surgeries without anesthesia, and they would burn the victims to see what would happen. Another method was called sun lamp where people were put under hot sun lamps in order to burn their skin. Furthermore, scientists experimented with transplants because they wanted to test the viability of transplanting major organs to treat injured
Prisoners in concentration camps had a fairly good routine schedule for their days’ activities. Every morning the inmates were woken up at 4 A.M. and had to make their straw bed, in a military manner, and then they must go to the sanitary facility with hundreds of prisoners all waiting for their turn. For breakfast, they were given approximately ten ounces of bread with, what the Kapo called, coffee. Sometimes, if a person was …show more content…
It is estimated that 6 million Jews died in the Holocaust, around 2.7 million Jews were murdered during 1942 alone. In the concentration camp, Natzweiler-Struthof, from May 1941 to March 1945, between 19,000 and 20,000 people died. Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, socialists, and others were tortured and murdered. When the first gas chamber was made operational, about 130 Jews were gassed. Afterwards, they were sent to the Strasbourg University Institute of Anatomy, where Dr. August Hirt studied Jewish skeletons in order to establish Jewish “racial inferiority” by means of anthropological study. Another method for eliminating the Jews was hangings during the afternoon roll call. Other prisoners were beaten to death, shot for not being quick enough, starved to death, frozen to death, or died from medical experiments. During the course of 1944, members of the French Resistance were among the prisoners brought to Natzweiler. Most of them were killed upon arrival. Remaining resistance group prisoners were sent to work in the quarry or on road construction, where work conditions were the …show more content…
Gypsies were also used for deadly experiments. The scientists recorded effects of gas when applied directly to the skin, inhaled, or injected. These experiments caused tremendous pain, as they slowly destroyed the subjects' organs, until their eventual death. Other experiments, at Natzweiler, included studying the effects of typhus vaccines and epidemic jaundice. They would take twins, pour acid on one to see what might happen to the other. Doctors performed surgeries without anesthesia, and they would burn the victims to see what would happen. Another method was called sun lamp where people were put under hot sun lamps in order to burn their skin. Furthermore, scientists experimented with transplants because they wanted to test the viability of transplanting major organs to treat injured