Reich History
Reich History By Claudia Berdella View of the Sobibor extermination camp, 1943 Studying the Holocaust is an interesting and tolling task when gone in-depth and below what the general surface level of understanding of it is. There are so many intricacies that go along with it. Of course, most people will know, recognize and have a basic understanding of the big names of it: Auschwitz, Dachau, and sometimes Buchenwald. However, what most do not know, is that Auschwitz was one of six extermination camps. The closest in operations was Majdanek, then the other four being Chełmno, Belzec, Treblinka and Sobibor. Nor are people aware of the torture (and somewhat transit) camp Neue Bremm, or similar subcamps. Many know about the twin experiments done at Auschwitz by Josef Mengele, but very little is circulated about those done on Polish women— “The Rabbits”— at the Ravensbruck concentration camp by Fritz Sischer, Karl Gebhardt and Herta Oberhausen. The Ravensbrück camp itself is a fascinat