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 then human beings. However not everyone got a number, there were occasions where they ran out of ink.
More people were killed in Auschwitz then the combined total WWII military casualties of the US,UK and Canada. An estimated 1.1 million were murdered in Auschwitz. 845.800 UK/US and Canadian troops were killed during all of WWII .
A Star of David was placed above the entrance to the gas chamber and a sign was painted in Hebrew on a purple curtain covering the entrance to the gas chamber that said “This is the Gateway to God. Righteous men will pass through”
Of the estimated 7,500 -8000 guards only 750 were sentenced, and even those sentences were mostly relatively light sentences.
Auschwitz guards had their own athletics team. The camp for the was like a small town, with its own 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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