What was the first priority given to the death camps?
1 Answer
It depends what your answer means.
Explanation:
If it refers to the priorities given to prisoners as they arrived, then they were classified primarily into two groups. Firstly there were those who were fit enough to work. They would be used as slave labour in the huge industrial complexes which were put of camps such as Auschwitz and critical in the German war effort. They were to be worked to death.
Secondly there were those deemed unfit to work. These include the young old and sick. They were immediately gassed in gas chambers designed as showers and their bodies utilised for he German war effort.
Some prisoners were selected for horrific experiments. These include pregnant women and twins. Josef Mengele a camp doctor at Auschwitz used twins in his sick experimentation into eugenics.
