Nazi Work Camp Research Paper

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We were taken by them, the Nazi’s. We were thrown on a train and packed like sardines. We were taken here, to this camp. When they forced us off of the train, there was this man. No. Not a man. A monster. He choose which direction you went. Left or right. If he pointed left, you got to work for the Nazi's at the work camp. If he pointed right, well, I never have seen anyone who went to the right ever again. Sometimes, I feel like those who went to the right got it off easier. The work camps were horrible. We were separated from our families and stripped of our dignities. I couldn’t think of anything worse than them in this world. In the work camp, we were expected to do exactly whatever the nazi’s wanted us to do. We were slaves to them. They

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