Life in a Concentration Camp

A thorough study of these "camps" reveals that they were Germany's answer to a dwindling workforce as the war demanded more and more soldiers on multiple fronts. Auschwitz in particular was a labor camp for the production of synthetic rubber for the war machine, as well as synthetic petroleum products. As the war fortunes turned upside down, the entire country fell into economic ruin, with no supply chains remaining. The camps became unsanitary and unfed.