g were taken from the prisoners when they first entered the camps and these items were then sold." Surrounding some of the camps in Poland was a forest, that the Jews who planned to escape would flee into. Before the escaped prisoners got very far, they were usually killed. "When the Germans caught a Jew planning a rebellion, and the Jew refused to name his/her associates, the Germans would bring everyone from his/her barracks out and force him/her to watch the Germans mutilate the others." People who could not run away from the camps were often able to survive because they dreamt about revolt. Special areas of a camp were set aside for medical experiments. Doctors in one medical unit performed experiments in sterilization. "He injected a substance into women's ovaries to sterilize them. The injection resulted in temperature and inflammation of the ovaries." Joseph Mengels, one of the most notorious Nazi doctors, hummed opera tunes when selecting, among the new arrivals, the victims for the gas chambers or medical experiments. His women victims for sterilization were usually 20-30 years of age. "Other experiments included putting inmates into high pressure chambers to test the effects of altitude on pilots. Some inmates were frozen in order to determine the best way to revive frozen German soldiers." "The first death camp, Chelmno, was set up in Poland on December 8, 1941. This was five weeks before the Wannsee Conference at which time the 'final solution' was planned out." Usually, the death camps were part of existing camps, but some new ones were just set up for the purpose of extermination. When the prisoners first arrived at the camps, those sent to the left were transferred to death camps. When Jews entered the death camps, their suitcases, baby bottles, shawls, and eyeglasses were taken and were sold.Once in the death camps the prisoners were again divided. Women were sent to one side to have their hair shaven and the men to the ...
