Prisoner+Sustenance

**// Hopeful p //// risoners at a camp waiting in line for a meal. // ** ** The prisoners were never taken care of, their was doctors but they did a lot more killing then trying to help the prisoners get better and able to work again. There was Euthanasia which is direct medical killing; the doctors were hiding these killings for the protection of their self and plus they were thinking that if it seems that they have been killing the patients then they would not have any more patients. A quote from a doctor that killed very many children “that there was no justification for keeping such a child alive” (Lifton 51). I felt as if this was very very wrong and I’m sure that everyone else is too, the only reason he was killing these children is because in his mind they had no point to live because they were from the ages birth to four years and they could not work or do anything in that matter. **  ** It is now known today that prisoners received very little to no food at all despite hard labor and punishment. However, many are unaware of the Nazis’ neglect for prisoner nutrition. In any camp, a prisoner was extremely lucky to receive three “meals” a day, all served in camp mess halls. Breakfast, typically the only meal served, usually consisted of stale, moldy bread and tasteless tea or coffee. In the camps, sugar was as rare and valuable as gold. Rarely, prisoners would receive margarine or jelly with their bread, but it depended on rations and how merciful different camps were. If the prisoners ever received dinner, it was either more bread or soup. However, “soup” was just warm water with rotten vegetables and some meat floating at the top. Eating was extremely regulated, and if a prisoner did not have his eating ware, he received no food at all, nor was a prisoner likely to receive any food if he was only a few seconds late to a meal. **

** Shelter, or prisoner housing in concentration camps were arranged in the prisoners’ barracks. Every morning prisoners were awoken very early from their barracks to rush to get dressed and out to morning roll-call. Nazis forced the prisoners to rush out as one of the camps’ many daily punishments because it was so hard for prisoners to do so. The barracks were always crowded, and usually had no windows and almost never had any sort of a bathroom, with the exception of a bucket. Most barracks consisted of about 36 wooden bunks or more, but prisoners were so crammed that three to even six inmates slept on a each wooden plank, and some barracks housed 300 to 800 inmates in total. **

** Finally, the prisoners had little to no clothing if they had clothes it would be cloth. These prisoners were treated in the wrong way and not even by other people by the weather. They had to walk in the heart of the brutal winter with no shoes and basically no clothes, many would die from this if it was the weather that kills them or the guards who would execute multiple people just because they would fall out of line or slow down the group. The prisoners had very many illnesses dew to the conditions they had. Right when all the new prisoners arrive they are stripped of there clothes given cloth and there shoes are taken and piled up so they can pick out the best shoes and give them to the soldiers. **