What happened when the prisoners arrived...

     Prisoners in concentration camps were treated horribly in concentration camps. When the prisoners first arrived the German soldiers would take all of the prisoners' possessions. This included jewelry, watches etc. The Nazis also took clothes such as suits, any clothing articles, and shoes. all these were organized into separate rooms. after all of the prisoners' possessions were taken from them they were shaved and washed to help prevent lice and various diseases. A survivor of the Holocaust stated, "From now on you have no identity. You have no place of origin. all you have is a number. Except for the number, you have nothing."(Rogaski pg.97) All the prisoners literally had nothing after this point when entering the concentration camps because the German soldiers took everything from them. They did not get a warm welcome at all when entering the camps.                                                                                                   These are the prisoners in the barracks lying in their bunks.

Conditions for prisoners in the Concentration camps...

     While the prisoners were in the concentration camps, they were severely starved, parched, and constantly brutally tortured. They all lived in barracks which were small buildings with bunks in them. There were about three to five people on each bunk. Some prisoners had jobs which included burning the dead bodies of the other prisoners who were either killed by the German soldiers or died from lack of nutrients and were starved. The food given to the prisoners was not very healthy. As a survivor stated, "Their food-watery salt less soup with rotten vegetables and tainted meat, a few ounces of bread and tea."(Rogaski pg.100) These living conditions were really harsh for the prisoners. Life was not easy for the people in the concentration camps. The camps were full of diseases (SUCH AS? need details to be a fact) resulting in death, and severe sickness.                                                                                The bathrooms in the concentration camps.

How most prisoners died in the concentration camps...

     There were obviously many deaths in concentration camps. Many of the deaths that occurred were from disease, dehydration, and famine. The German soldier also severely tortured resulting in death. Some ways the Nazis would torture the prisoners is by making them balance rocks on their heads, or doing knee, bends and push upsThe soldiers would have usually picked the weakest prisoners to do these things, and what happened to the prisoner if he/she fell while doing knee bends or push ups the person was shot. When the people in the concentration camps were forced to balance rocks on their heads and dropped them that person would also be shot. The German soldiers also made the prisoners play "games" such as tag. The Nazis would pick weaker people and make one person tag another. The person who was tagged was shot for losing. Also, some other ways the prisoners were killed was in gas chambers. The Nazi soldiers would put a large amount of victims and kill them with toxic gases. The bodies were burned afterward in the ovens. If a prisoner should survive the gas chamber, they would just be burned alive with the other cadavers. Another common result of death was suicide.  Many people believed that they had nothing to live for and had no reason at all to live. So they threw them self into the electric fences keeping them in. Hitler kept files of these and he filed this death as 14f2. A prisoner stated, "I already had the prescribed hunger, that chronic hunger unknown to free men, which makes one dream at night, and settles in all the limbs of one's body...on the back of my feet i already had those numb soresthat will not heal...my face is thick in the morning, hollow in the evening..."(A survivor, Rogaski pg.100-101). Life for the jews, gypsies,disabled etc. was really harsh. 

  The ovens which were used to burn the cadavers.

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