Prisoners in Auschwitz were given a number, which was tattooed on their arm. Marking people with a number makes it easier to treat them as objects rather than human beings. However, not everyone got a number, and there were occasions when they ran out of ink.
More people were killed in Auschwitz than the combined total World War II military casualties of the US, UK and Canada. An estimated 1.1 million were murdered in Auschwitz and 845,800 UK/US and Canadian troops were killed during the entire war.
A Star of David was placed above the entrance to the gas chamber with a sign painted in Hebrew on a purple curtain covering the entry to the gas chamber that read, “This is the Gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through.”
Of the estimated 7,500–8.000 guards, only 750 were sentenced, and most of those sentences were relatively light.
Auschwitz guards had their own athletic team. The camp was like a small town, with a staff canteen, cinema, theatre and grocery store.
The Nazis generated a revenue of 60 million Reichmarks, which is today’s equivalent of 163 million USD. from slave labour.
Auschwitz was, of course, a complex of about 40 camps
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