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Steve > As far as the eye can see, are the remnants of barracks. The average lifespan of a slave laborer here was about 6-8 months; shorter in the winter. This is not surprising as these stables offer little protection from the elements.
Steve > Looking back on the main building in Birkenau from where the crematoriums stood.
Steve > The Nazis were so eager to wipe out the Jewish people, that as the war came to a close, they chose to dedicate resources to murdering the Jews of Hungary rather than providing food and weapons to their own soldiers on the Russian front.
Steve > One of a number of groups of teenagers from Israel here learning of this horrible chapter in the history of the Jewish people.
Steve > As far as the eye can see, are the remnants of barracks. The average lifespan of a slave laborer here was about 6-8 months. Shorter in the winter, since these stables offer little protection from the elements.
Steve > Where the barracks in Auschwitz had a campus feel, here in Birkenau they more resembled horse stables. The camp extends beyond the trees in the background.
Steve > In the area between these tracks, Nazi "doctors" would determine the fate of new arrivals. Hearty people would become slave labor and all others would be murdered immediately in the gas chambers by the trees in the distance.
Steve > While only 1.5km away, Birkenau has none of the campus-like look of Auschwitz. This is because Auschwitz originally was an army base where Birkenau was built for death.
Steve > Like other concentration camps, the phrase "Work makes freedom" is cynically posted over the gate.
As far as the eye can see, are the remnants of barracks. The average lifespan of a slave laborer here was about 6-8 months; shorter in the winter. This is not surprising as these stables offer little protection from the elements.
Steve > As far as the eye can see, are the remnants of barracks. The average lifespan of a slave laborer here was about 6-8 months; shorter in the winter. This is not surprising as these stables offer little protection from the elements.
As far as the eye can see, are the remnants of barracks. The average lifespan of a slave laborer here was about 6-8 months; shorter in the winter. This is not surprising as these stables offer little protection from the elements.
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