Write your Night essay here: JoLynn O’Shea O’Shea 1 Ms. Brandanger English 11 15 May 2023 Auschwitz, The Camp of Death More than 1 million people were tortured, starved, and gassed to death. Camp Auschwitz was a huge but awful part of history. Everything that happened in this camp led me to believe that what happened in camp Auschwitz was inhumane because of the torture that was happening to the prisoners, their horrible diet, and the fact the camp was created just to kill certain groups of people. The conditions for the prisoners at Auschwitz were horrible. From being tortured, starved, beaten, or experimented on, to being quickly executed if you weren't fit for slave labor. Their doctors checked you to see whether …show more content…
Although they did get three “meals” per day. They received only half a liter of “coffee” which was boiled water with a grain-based coffee substitute or “tea” which was a herbal brew for breakfast. A liter of soup, which were mainly potatoes, rutabaga, and small amounts of groats, rye flour, and Avo food extract for lunch. This soup was so unappetizing that new prisoners were unable to eat it. For dinner they got 300 grams of black bread, 25 grams of sausage, or margarine, or a tablespoon of marmalade or cheese. The bread they got was supposed to be a part of their breakfast. Usually the prisoners ate all of it in one sitting. The low nutrition in these meals along with hard labor made their bodies use up stored fat, muscle, and tissue of their internal organs. This all led to thinness in their body and starvation. With the prisoners starving, they had ideas to steal food which was “the most frequently punished infraction” according to an article titled “Auschwitz-Birkenau Nutrition.” Auschwitz prisoners had it horrible and this is another thing that proves …show more content…
Hitler’s “final solution” to this was this camp, as stated in an article by Michael Berenaum.” After this Auschwitz was “deemed an ideal death camp locale.”("Auschwitz") Auschwitz started off inhumane and always will