For my 3rd assigned blog I watched one part of the twelve part series Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State. In this part of the series, the narration talks about the beginning of Auschwitz. The first thing that I learned from this movie was that Auschwitz was in Poland, not Germany. It was also a previous military site that was used for horse training. It was decided that a place was needed to keep all the prisoners of war, and Auschwitz fit the bill. They constructed many new buildings and made the entire place more dreary in general. They had plain prison cells, standing cells where people were crammed in so tight it was hard to breath, starvation cells where people were put and fed nothing until they died, and places where experiments took place. This was the first time that Germany was testing mass-extermination. An early attempt was using pest control poison, but when it didn't work they had to keep upping the gas to kill the people. Next they tried using hundreds of pounds of explosives. People were blown to bits and hanging from trees. They tried carbon monoxide but decided it was too expensive. Then for the time being, they hooked the trucks up to the rooms and ran the engines until the people died. After a period of time they were able to find a gas that was up to their liking. They began using it in gas chambers all over the camp, and it made Auschwitz famous the reason it is today.
While the movie was pretty interesting and had a lot of good information, it was quite boring at times. To be honest, I momentarily fell asleep before realizing I had more food to eat. I would probably give this movie a 6.8675309/10.
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