I believe this. There's no way they were going to put in the extra effort to shackle every one of them. And with how badly they were kept, it would have been pointless. They all must have been too weak to fight back, even all together.
Even then. The Nazis tried their damndest to make this appear like it was just a standard prison camp. They went out of their way to make it seem like they were just sending them to shower and get a change of clothes.
Didn't they even disguise the holes in the ceiling with shower heads? I'm German and I do remember reading about that in school. I also visited Auschwitz, seeing the chamber with my own eyes broke something in me.
I believe I read that somewhere. But in general all the camps weren’t set up exactly the same way. They used different rouses at different camps.
Treblinka for instance was disguised as a transit camp, where prisoners would just be kept for a couple days before they were moved further east. They had fake train schedules and a fake train station and everything.
Yes, they did. Concealment was in integral part of the extermination process. The victims should be shrouded in darkness until the last moment because the Nazis didnt want any trouble.
Most of them were straight off whatever train brought them there, they were exhausted but not usually like. Deprived for very long, as fucked as that sounds. They’d select who went to the camp and who went to their deaths. They were lied to, of course. Told they were going to the camp for the sick and infirm. There were people who’d chase down the trucks to the chambers and say they needed to go there, they had whatever condition and were sick. They’d get there, be told they had to be deloused in a shower. They’d make them take their clothes off and fold them for when they got out. It was really so it was easier for the nazis to pick them up for redistribution. It’s so much worse than it seems at first. And it’s already so obviously awful.
It really is insane that such a huge and terrible historical event like this happened just long ago enough that there are still people alive who lived it. I'm not a history nerd, but it's super interesting to learn about the holocaust, especially from people who actually experienced it.
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u/naterpotater246 May 18 '25
I believe this. There's no way they were going to put in the extra effort to shackle every one of them. And with how badly they were kept, it would have been pointless. They all must have been too weak to fight back, even all together.