camp and assigned a number. Then they would be tattooed on the left arm(Meltzer 117). Here SS officers ruled with military discipline. Men and women worked daily in tile factories outside of the camp. The work here was not done leisurely, but under strict command and control by the Nazi officers( Meltzer 28). Hitler later came upon the idea of death camps. He created camps where Jews would be shot, tortured, gassed, or experimented with medically. The four main death camps were Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor. Train loads of men and women would be brought to these camps. When they arrived, there was a doctor waiting for them. The people would be stripped completely naked and give up their shoes, valuables, spectacles, artificial limbs, and their hair. Then the doctor would point to the right, or he would point to the left. One way, a victim would be immediately taken to the showers and gassed with Zyklon B, and the other way, the victim would be put to work for the time being( Meltzer 127- 128). Doctors were brought to the camps to perform the most bizarre medical experiments ever. They tested on Malaria, High Altitude, Freezing the human body, and changing peoples eye color(medical experiments). For the freezing tests, people were put in below freezing temperatures for up to fourteen hours without any clothing. Then the doctors would watch and record their reactions. The Air force put prisoners in a rocket, and sent the rocket up as high as possible while stimulated altitudes until they were killed( Meltzer 131-132). Their final problem was disposing the bodies. At first, bodies were buried in mass graves, but this created bad odors, and left evidence of killing. Then cremation in small ovens was tried, but these ovens could not dispose of the bodies quickly enough. So at Auschwitz bodies were burned in open pits. The record for killing at Auschwitz was 34,000 people in twenty-four hours. There was...
