thing and put it in a corner of the room. They were ordered to go into the showers to sanitize. After the showers they shaved of all hair on their body. Once out of the building they were given an issued set of clothing. They then had a large red cross painted on their backs.During the days they used to do head counts of the women. They were forced to stand up for up to five hours. In the scorching sun with out water and food this was a very daunting task. When the women would pass out and drop the S.S. men would take them away most likely to be terminated. They were forced to use a communal opened latrine and they had nothing for their menstrual cycle. This was all very degrading to the individual, and brought down the human spirit. They came from a form of society where all of this stuff was very personal and private. But their being was broken down enough so that this sort of thing did not bother them any more.Many holocaust accounts say that the Jews were killed in masses. There is also the number that six million Jews were killed during the holocaust. There is a new group of people called the revisionist. These people are historians who are studying the holocaust and trying to find out what happened. They are said to deny the holocaust. They do not deny it; they are just revising by looking at the facts. They have now moved the number of Jewish deaths from the holocaust to around 1-2 million. Their reasoning is this. The 6 million figures included the death of every European Jew in the war regardless on how they died. The number included even the death of civilians from allied bombing. The Death camp Auschwitz is now a museum. The number of 4 million people being executed there has now been officially moved to 1 million after further review. If this number is wrong they believe that the entire number can be wrong all together. This is a pretty widely excepted viewpoint. There are the people that still believe that the original numb...
