'Slave Labor', From: "To Vanquish The Dragon," by Pearl Benisch, Feldheim Publishers

Hungarian Jews not selected as laborers were murdered in the gas chambers almost immediately after arrival.[111] Photo from the Auschwitz Album (May 1944).                                                                                                 By aish.com staff via aish.com: Upon arrival at the camps, the masses of Jews were immediately sorted for death or slave labor.

Those who survived the transport went to the famous "sorting" platforms. As soon as they disembarked the trains, they were divided up - women to one side, men to the other. One by one. every person passed by a medical doctor.

The doctor made a split-second decision: Can we wring a bit of work out of this wretched body?

There were over 100 of these medical monsters, including some of the finest doctors from the finest German hospitals. One was a professor of medicine from Harvard.
All had sworn a medical oath to uphold medical ethics and to assist humanity.

The doctor would decide: Life or death. If the decision was "death," then within two or three hours the person's ashes went up the chimney.
The alternative - "life" - was actually "slow death."

Slave Labor Camps

Those Jews who were strong enough did not go to their immediate death, but instead to labor camps to serve as slaves for the German "masters."...Continue reading...