Prisoners were told the gas chambers were showers.
P.O.W.'s or Prisoners of War
Those in charge of the cruelty and death that were being enacted in the camps. Often times, however, the Nazi guards would round up all the prisoners and force them on death marches, which would always end with the guards forcing the prisoners into a body of water and machine-gunning them.
Lageralteste has no common meaing in German. Lagermeans camp or warehouse, ältestemeans oldest. In the Nazi concentration camps I believe it meant a prisoner appointed by the Nazi guards as the senior 'trusty' of a camp, with a relatively privileged position, responsibility for the actions of the other prisoners, and authority to punish them.
The women's camps had female guards. Some of them were intensely sadistic.
Prisoners were told the gas chambers were showers.
P.O.W.'s or Prisoners of War
Those in charge of the cruelty and death that were being enacted in the camps. Often times, however, the Nazi guards would round up all the prisoners and force them on death marches, which would always end with the guards forcing the prisoners into a body of water and machine-gunning them.
Lageralteste has no common meaing in German. Lagermeans camp or warehouse, ältestemeans oldest. In the Nazi concentration camps I believe it meant a prisoner appointed by the Nazi guards as the senior 'trusty' of a camp, with a relatively privileged position, responsibility for the actions of the other prisoners, and authority to punish them.
The women's camps had female guards. Some of them were intensely sadistic.
Red was used for all political prisoners.
Yes.
American soldiers
Yes. There are extensive testimonies and witness evidence of abuse of women by guards in concentration camps, as any internet search will reveal.In addition to the Nazi concentration camps, there are many other accounts of concentration camp guards abusing inmates, including men and children, even in more recent times. For example, the link in Related links below spotlights the outrageous treatment of prisoners in such a camp in 1991/92.
It wasn't the soldiers who were. THEY were on the battle front, fighting us allies. The Nazi GUARDS and SS were the ones that were stationed at each concentration camp to kill and "Supervise" their prisoners. And by supervise, I mostly mean beat without reason and out of sheer cruelty order them around like slaves.
The only Nazi camp that tattooed prisoners was the Auschwitz group, where prisoners selected for work were tattooed. Prisoners at other camps and those sent immediately to be gassed at Auschwitz were not tattooed.
I am guessing it was dauchau... might be wrong