Living Conditions

The living conditions in German-operated ghettos and camps were at times horrible, but not always so. Contributions listed here paint a differentiating image of this topic, which also explains the horrid scenes the Allies discovered in German camps at war’s end.

Contribution to the History of the Family Camp at Birkenau

1. Installation of Familienlager BIIb and the Alleged Homicidal Gassings. On September 6, 1943, two transports of 2,479 and 2,528 Jews, altogether 5,007 persons, left the Theresienstadt ghetto for Auschwitz.[1] At Birkenau, on September 8, 5,006 persons arrived:[2] 2,293 men and boys, registered under ID numbers 146,694 – 148,986, and 2,713 women and girls who…

Forced Prostitution in State Brothels built by the National Socialists

Christa Paul, Zwangsprostitution, Edition Hentrich, Berlin, 1994, 240 S., €39.80 Ill. 1: “The German Labor Front, June 1942, Confidential. Re.: Setting up brothels for foreign workers”. Ill. 2: Balance sheet of the brothel in Buchenwald concentration camp, July 12, 1943. Imagine for a minute that the economy of your country was booming so well that…

Typhus – The Phantom Disease

Of the numerous eyewitness reports on the concentration camps and alleged extermination sites of the Third Reich, one often finds reports by former inmates describing atrocities committed by SS personnel while these witnesses were hospitalised in the camp's hospitals due to a severe typhus infection. The best known example may be that of Jacob Freimark…

Foreign Worker Passbooks and Letters/Letters sent by foreign workers in German camp system

Passbooks for foreign workers in German camp system Click on image to see a larger version.                       Letters sent by foreign workers in German camp system Click on image to see a larger version. Auschwitz       Dachau         Majdanek  …

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