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Civilization and Barbarity: An Examination of Several Abnormalities in the Death Camps of the Holocaust

by Nearly Anonymous in History, January 31, 2008
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In the midst of the Nazis’ industrialized killing system, prisoners disembarking from trains and herded toward the gas chambers often did so with a camp orchestra playing; Sonderkommando and their SS masters played games of soccer in the shadow of crematoria chimneys; inmates performed plays in camp theaters; hospitals were an integral part of even purpose-built death camps.

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