Survivor guilt
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On the hospitals: http://auschwitz.org/en/history/camp-hospitals/
The people who played football were the guards first of all, sometimes playing with the kapos (prisoners working as overseers, also wearing civilian clothing and well fed).
There was a water Reservoir, you don't swim in that.
They didn't have their own medical staff, there was small hospital, mainly used for the staff. National Socialists lived at Auschwitz.
There were hospitals (multiple, just like there have been many Auschwitz camps, including the 3 main camps). You either got better (enough to go back to the work) or were selected to be executed. Or just died there.
http://auschwitz.org/en/history/camp-hospitals/
Right, I remember that they had different treatment prioritization procedures for different ethnic groups.
For the first link, I don't think you've ever seen an Olympic sized swimming pool, and those are pretty fucking sketchy "diving boards". Do you think normal pools just have massive concrete pillars placed a few feet from one another?
And no Eisenhower did not have death camps, and a million Germans did not die after surrender, that's idiocy. Hell, even in the pictures, those Germans look healthier than the American POWs that were liberated from some of the prison camps, and that wasn't an intentional National Socialist extermination campaign.
Do not play this stupid reverse uno nonsense if you are going to complain about German post-war dead when you can legitimately complain about the several hundred thousand that died before or during forcible relocation from formerly occupied countries.
Also Polish and other such prisoners weren't "planned to be gassed". If they were to be executed they would be either just shot or got a lethal injection, for routine methods, or publicly hanged in special cases (such as a failed escape attempt), or starved to death in an underground dungeon also in special cases (like famously in the case of Saint Kolbe who volunteered for such a death to take place of an another). Or the kapos were just casually told to beat them to death.
My family member was in one of Auschwitz camps. She wasn't any "political prisoner", she was taken as a teenage slave just to work in a factory.
funnier thing about gassing claims is even: it would been pretty much most expensive way to kill, and chambers are claimed to be so small you couldnt fit even kid inside
adding ofc, denying that jews werent treated as 2nd class citizen would be lunacy; to see why gotta understand pre-era to nazi regime, where jews were big on germanys banking and finances, when markets of germany crashed and most germans lost their income. during nazi regime for sure jews were evicted and their businesses were claimed out (most in hate due that great depression predating nazi regime) and some sure were killed too in camps; modern medicine owes pretty much all it has to nazi germany; beside that conditions on camp were sure bad, sickness running rampart and bodies were carted into furnace (gotta burn or at least bury bodies if you dont want even worse pandemic hitting place)
They weren't treated as citizens at all. And also the extermination camps were created in Poland after the country was abolished and everyone in it ceased to be citizens unless they became citizens of Germany (the Volksdeutsche).
And an epidemic, not a pandemic.