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This website on Auschwitz describes to the people the regular punishments for the Jews
and others at the concentration camp. The regular punishments were beating,
confinement, and hanging torture. Anyone could receive these punishments for doing
anything that included, all attempts to get more food, skipping work, relieving oneself at
the improper time, or attempting to commit suicide. This article also includes an
estimated guess at how many people were coming into Auschwitz each year. There was
an estimated total of 1.1 million Jews registered by 1944. Just a few years before, it was
said that over half of the population at Auschwitz were Jews. The camp of Auschwitz
consisted of 22 prewar brick barracks buildings. The article is a credible source where the
information is up to date and stays on the topic. The website looks very professional and
thought out, and the owners of the website can easily be contacted for more information.
The article from this website discusses all the main details that the everyday people
should know about Auschwitz. For example, one of the topics discussed is how before
Auschwitz opened as a concentration camp for Jews, it served as a detention center for
political prisoners. Auschwitz was one of the biggest concentration camps throughout the
Holocaust, it was so big that they had to separate the camp into over 40 smaller camps.
During its operation, between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died. The division of Auschwitz
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that was considered the most dangerous was Birkenau. The last key point this article
covers is when it was liberated. The camp of Auschwitz was liberated on January 27,
1945 by the Soviet Union. History Channel is a reliable source because you can find
more information about them and contact them if you have any questions.
The article on Auschwitz from Thought Company informed the audience about all the
gas chambers and what the Nazis did to the prisoners. The people who were told to go to
the gas chambers never were aware they were the ones chosen for death. Once the
victims realized they were being gassed, they would climb on top of each other or claw at
the doors until their fingers bled. The selections were brutal and dreaded in Auschwitz II
also known as Birkenau. The Nazis would examine all the new prisoners that came in, to
find Jews to perform new experiments on. The article proves to be credible because the
website has no errors and looks professional. The author of the article Jennifer
Wiesel, Elie. Night, 1st edition, Hill and Wang, 2006, New York.
In the book, Night, Wiesel talks about his experiences at Auschwitz and at many other
concentration camps. He mainly talks about how scared he was when he first got there
and how he was close to committing suicide. He also explains many times throughout the
book that he has no faith in God left. Wiesel first starts to lose faith at Auschwitz. While
there, the dehumanizing process had begun. It started slowly taking over Elie. The Nazis
at the camps and directing the train cars were treating the Jews like animals, causing them
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to dehumanize even more. this book is a credible source because the book was written by