How did people survive Holocaust?
Not able to find substantial data There are survivors who were sent to concentration camps but came out alive. How was that possible?
Not everyone was gassed. There was a different purpose for every camp inmate - experimentation, slave labour, etc.
You should visit a concentration camp, it tells you the detail of the purpose and method.
If short of time - Dachau near Munich.
If you have adequate time and need a deeper perspective - Auschwitz near Krakow, Poland.
Recently went to Auschwitz and Birkenau. Just being there is so haunting.
One would imagine dying was an easier option to the daily misery they had to put up with.
It can be very very difficult to deal with. Its an extreme emotion.
I went to Dachau first and it took me a few months to recover from that. And I am a WW2 buff, plenty of reading, field visits, movies, museums. Nothing prepared me for actually being there.
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Not everyone was sent to execution... They were used as slave labor and for human experiments... Some guards revealed their inner sadists and took pleasure in extending misery... Some made their escape during transportation, some found salvation when the war came to and end, and they weren't still executed...
DesiAgritechGuy
Student
10 months ago
In some places the soldiers fled before the advancing allied armies reached the camps. And one of Eisenhower’s first orders after learning about the extent of the camps was to record and collate evidence and film as much as possible lest later on people claimed “it never happened”
TedKaczynski
Stealth
10 months ago
There are detailed records of liberation of camps. American and Soviet soldiers found many prisoners on the brink of starvation. At one instance Americans were so disgusted by it that they disobeyed all orders and killed every German soldier they could see.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_liberation_reprisals
