Allies in Auschwitz
Allies in Auschwitz "It is unclear how many Allied men were forced to work as slaves for the Nazis. Many of them had escaped from other POW camps or had worked with underground resistance units. Most…
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Allies in Auschwitz
"It is unclear how many Allied men were forced to work as slaves for the Nazis. Many of them had escaped from other POW camps or had worked with underground resistance units. Most of these men were not Jewish.
Various British soldiers were dispatched to concentration camps, which included Buchenwald, Belsen, and Theresienstadt." (from the introduction)The huge Auschwitz camp in Poland, the Third Reich's most gruesome death camp, contained not only the infamous concentration camp--whose horrors are well-documented--but also a prisoner-of-war facility that housed British inmates. Their actions led the Nazis to recategorize them as political prisoners, which meant that they lost their POW status and, therefore, the rights afforded to them under the Geneva Convention. Situated close enough to the Jewish quarters to smell the stench of burning bodies from the crematoria, the POWs were