Today I watched a programmed about prisoner and Nazi life in concentration camps and how this effected these people in later life. It focused on Hungarian Jews as well as Polish Jews. Some interesting facts were:
75% of Hungarian Jews died in Auschwitz.
Auschwitz protocol allowed allies to understand layout of camp from escaped prisoners.
From 1944 Jewish organisation requested that the railway line to Auschwitz was bombed. All ideas to bomb it were forwarded to the USA and 'forgotten' about.
21000 out of 23000 gypsies died. Gypsies were the only people to be treated nearly as badly as the Jews.
On the 2nd of August 1944, the gypsy camp was liquidated in Auschwitz Birkenau. After this killing dropped from 10000 people per day to 1000.
On the 7th October 1944, sonderkommando set fire to crematorium 1 and 2 and attacked their SS guards with rocks and pickaxes. Some managed to escape into the woods but were rounded up and every third man was shot. Only 92 men were left alive.
I will upload notes from the second episode soon.
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