The prisoners were separated into two different lines, one for women and the other for men. The lines moved into the camp where a procedure called selection took place. The people who could work were not killed at this time. The nazis were going to get their work out of the new prisoners. The women, children, and others that couldnt work were not so lucky, they were gassed. Tattoos were given to the selected prisoners on their right arm as an easy way of registration. Not all of the original prisoners had this tattoo. The registered number of prisoners was 405,000. The prisoners that were picked to work, had their clothes taken, heads shaved, sterilized, and were given black and white striped clothes to wear. In the forced labor camps, the average lifetime was only a few months. A dreaded part of camp routine was the appeal, or roll call. In this practice, prisoners were sent out into the cold after a hard day of work, and were lined up. Anyone that fell to the ground was shot or gassed. One of the most disgusting and depressing chores that had to be done was called Sonderkommando. This meant that you burned the deceased bodies of the prisoners in the crematoria. The daily routine in the complex differed in each camp, but the basic routine was the same. The inmates woke at dawn, cleaned their area up, morning roll call was taken, they walked to their given work site, worked for long hours, had to wait in long lines for food, then walked back to their bunks, block inspection was done, and then evening roll call was taken. There were also people who got picked for medical experiments. The most widely known doctor at Auschwitz was Joseph Mengele. His experiments were mainly done on twins and dwarfs. He did a lot of experiments that had to do with death. He would see how long it would take a person to die if you did certain things to the body, torture. He also did experiments that had to do with cutting off b...
