The Auschwitz Concentration Camps

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“The road to Auschwitz was built by hate, but paved with indifference.”-Ian Kershaw a British historian and author. The Auschwitz concentration camp was one of the largest and most well known Nazi concentration camp. About 437,402 Jews were killed at this camp in 1944. Most of the children that arrived at this Camp were normally killed immediately. The camp doctor would normally select children to be tested on. The doctor would test the kids by freezing them, placing them in chambers, or testing them with drugs. I think that the children were treated unfairly at this Nazi concentration camp. It was so cruel that these innocent kids had to be tested on by doctors.

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