Memory of the Camps

Imagine waking up everyday to the smell of death, typhus, barely any food or water, and no hope. Welcome to the death camps of germany. In the episode of frontline they featured an old documentary on the death camps of WWII never released until now. The documentary is very chilling. There are tons of bodies everywhere in the camps. All of them deformed and unbearable to look at. It makes you wonder how screwed up the country of germany at the time really was.

The Nazi SS officers and staff of the camps were forced to bury the slaughtered innoccent people after the camps were liberated. The creepy thing is that when they buried them they were happy and showed no remorse for the 11 million people they slaughtered, 6 million of them Jewish. The fact that there was 300 camps with each camp asking for the deaths of 600 jews each day is just not humane. to just not care about these human beings and they the condition for human life is just horrible.

When the prisoners were liberated from the camps they still had to stay there because the camps outbreaked into Typhus. This is proof that the nazi's did not provide soap and water to their imates which caused lice to appear. Thus lice can infect people with Typhus. Typhus was not the only thing the inmates had to deal with. The inmates were forced to carry the dead and put them in a pit or burn them. That is probabaly one of the most horrible experiences of the camp.

Imagine yourself as a solider during that time liberating a camp. You are in the german country traveling. You look around and you can see beautiful scenry. everything seems peaceful but do you smell that horrible stench? It's the smell of millions of corpses out in the open at deathcamps. You witness these bodies in different pits each pitt containing 5 thousand different people. It is because of this tragedy in the past we can learn from our mistakes to not repeat them.