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Originally Posted by k0nr4d
I've been to one of the camps - Majdanek. It was going to be the largest camp if it was finished but the war ended before they finished it. I don't know what it looks like at the other camps as I haven't been to any others, but at least at that one there was quite a bit of housing and barrack
I saw the gas chamber too. While I can't rule out that it was used to kill people,
- It was maybe 140cm ceiling at best, not enough to stand up in, and was quite small.
- The shower room was at least 10 times the size of the gas chamber.
- There was 3 rooms. A main room (presumably to get undressed) which contained a fenced cage with cans of Zyklon-B, and then two doors - one to the gas chamber and one to the showers.
I'm not saying people didn't get killed or executed there by any means and this might look completely different at the other camps, but what i personally saw at Majdanek supports the fumigation idea. As was written earlier though, it could be that some were "prison camps" and some were "death camps".
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"The German Nazi crimes against the Polish nation,[1][2][3] claimed approximately 5.6 million,[4] to 5.8 million lives,[5] of whom 3.1 million were Polish Jews,[4] two million were ethnic Poles, and the remaining half-a-million minorities.[4][6] The crimes were committed during the course of the 1939 invasion,[7] as well as the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II.[8] The genocidal policy of the German Third Reich against Polish citizens ? as the epicenter of Nazi German war crimes (1939?45) and crimes against humanity ? resulted in the death of 16.7?17.2% of Poland's prewar population (1932 census)."
You have a hard time believing that 3.1 Polish Jews just disappeared off the face of the earth, what about the 2 million non-Jewish Poles?