Nazi Twins experiments

The atrocities that were done in the diffrent camps are well documented in those that weren´t death camps solely. One of the well known camps during the nazi regime is aushwitz which was a multi-camp that housed and killed people. Aushitz however was also the camp where men, woman and children were experimented on. One of the well known cases are those of twins who the moment they were spotted getting of the trains were snatched away. Documents suggest that there were abut 700 pairs of twins that were experimented on. In many cases when one of the twins died the other was killed. It is thought that the nazis were interested in the genetics of the twins and how they came to be. Twins that had survived were young and forgot what they went through or they doent entirely remebr what happened but many do say that some twins were injected with bacteria to give them diseases and some twins had their organs harvested without anestisia 

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30933718

Auschwitz: A Simplified Brutal Community

Auschwitz was undoubtedly one of the most brutal and horrendous places in Nazi Germany back in the World War Two days, but surprisingly a place that has caused so much pain and suffering can be looked at as a learning and teaching moment for many people because it illustrates aspects of human beings and how the world around us works. Auschwitz, despite the death camp part, has many concentration camp additions to model it more about the world outside of the walls. They had a soccer stadium, a library, photographic lab, and its own symphony orchestra. It also housed resistance groups along with religious services. It even had a brothel for the prisoners who had been behaving well and earned a good time. Tadeusz Borowski, a surviving prisoner and Polish writer, made the bold statement that "the whole world is really like a concentration camp. " Although tough to look at our world as a place with all these cruel events occurring, it holds similar basic fundamentals for human survival to a concentration camp. For example, the strong people control the weak ones and force them to work for them and when they can no longer work, they die. Borowski expressed that "There is no crime that a man will not commit in order to save himself." Essentially, the world is ruled by power, not by morals or being nice to everyone. Sometimes, things need to get done to survival and the basic primal instinct kicks in to push people through the hardships and work when they are holding on to any sliver of hope. A less extreme example would be in business in the real world. The strong ones who were able to make it to the top of the business are now able to hire the weaker or less experienced ones to do the dirty work for them. The most important part that ties these together is how the low wage, low experience workers are expendable much likes the prisoners in the camp. If the worker can't keep up with company standards or starts to rebel then they are fired. Much like at the camp, if a worker gets too weak and cannot keep up with doing work for the SS then they either die from starvation or are killed by the SS.

Trash Islands

The new recycling idea I stumbled upon is a private island that is fully built of bottles and other trash. I think this idea could be the idea of the future. The idea is that you are to get nets and fill them up with bottles and gallon containers or any other trash that allows you to close the container and holds in the air, you then tie together these massive nets full of these containers and put flat pieces of wood on top of the nets that will then allow you to put get a flat surface of which you can build a hut on. Though most of the islands I have seen so far only contain small living space I believe that this is something that alot of years from now will be very common, since instead of these bottles getting tossed out into the enviorment they will now be used to make more land for our ever growing population. In the future the idea will obviously be modified to maxmimise the amount of bottles and trash that can be unmder these private islands and slowly I do believe this will be a large part of our recycling ordeal.

Zyklon B

A Jewish Chemist named Fritz Haber seemed to be the one who has invented Zyklon B. IG Farben bought the patent for Zyklon B, A German Chemist and Pharmaceutical. IG Farben sucsseded with his company later in the 1930, he contacted Germany and became a donor for the Nazi Party. They provided large amounts of Materials for the facilities in Auschwitz and other camps. This company also contributed during WW2.

Nazis "Canada"

           Today in our journal reading we discussed this idea of "Canada" in Auschwitz. The Holocaust time period consisted of a lot of stealing. After inferior races were sent to the extermination camp of Auschwitz, they were stripped of their clothing and belongings. There clothing and belongings were then piled up in rows of 30 barracks. These piles of belongings became the biggest black market for Germany, known was "Canada". Anything from food to a variety of other items were constantly being stolen, sold, or traded. Below is a photo of a barrack that contained shoes of those who were stripped of there clothes and belongings. 

Ilse Koch

Ilse Koch was the wife of a Colonel who was in charge of the Sachsenhausen camp.  In the summer of 1937 he was transferred to Buchenwald which at the time was a new concentration camp. What we know about her started upon her arival to the camp. According to sources she would go around the camp and choose prisoners with tatoo markings that she liked and would have officers take the prisoners away to be killed and have their skin with their tatoo cut off and tanned so that she could use it later. She used human skin to make Lampshades, bookcovers, and gloves and added them to her collection that she had now stareted to amass. In addition to using skin to make these items, she would have prisoners perfrom harsh physical actitivies to tire them for her won amusement.

After WWII  Ilse and her children moved to a suburban neghborhood where she was rrested and tried for her crimes. HEr sentance was reduced to much outrage and then she was arrested once again for her treatment of prisoners. She would go on to hang herself in a women prison in 1967

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ilse-Koch

http://www.auschwitz.dk/Women/Koch.htm

Mob Mentality

Following the Eagles victory in the Super Bowl, a common problem happened at a large scale, the problem of mob mentality. Fans were wreaking havoc and causing immeasurable damage to private and public property. This is an example of where an outburst of emotion as well as a unified cause can blur the lines between wrong and right. In a way, it makes sense how people would be able to rally around the Nazis as a lot of them had struggles and were fighting for a common cause.