Ok, I know these places were horrible, and I know about the gassing and stuff, but what kind of labor did the workers have to do exactly? What was their work going towards?
2007-12-22 06:17:51 · 3 answers · asked by Kitty 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
The SS used the camps as a source of labour to actually make money - the tasks undertaken ranged from fine arts like making porcelain, or forgin forgien banknotes to quarrying stone.
2007-12-22 06:26:22 · answer #1 · answered by I got questions! 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
A very good friend of mine as a prisoner of war, he compared it to Russia's Gulag after reading it, I gave him a
copy.
They woke on a winters day at 3:00 A.M. and took roll call. If a man died during the night, he was taken out and stood up, other wise they wouldn't get all their rations, in fact, they did this until the man literally fell apart.
They were given one cup of thin potato soup with a bit of potato in it, some bugs of course.
They worked on the Dam at the Gulag in 30 below freezing, with a blanket and home made gloves. Making cement by hand and pouring it. Every night, some would be missing.
Get the books by Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the "Gulag Archipelago" these very books opened the worlds eyes as to what Stalin was doing to his people, they were not so different then the Nazi and, in fact rated Stalin the biggest mass murder in history.
2007-12-23 05:48:00 · answer #2 · answered by cowboydoc 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It went toward the german war effort. They made things by hand they dug coal, they loaded trucks, they fixed stuff, they packaged food and rations for the German troops.
2007-12-22 14:20:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋