Nazi transportation carriage.
The cattle car was regulated at only 50 people. However, the SS would overlook this stipulation, often doubling the amount of people. The SS organised trains of 50 cars per convoy. With an average of 100 people per car, each train ended up moving upwards of 5,000 prisoners at a time. The Germans rarely provided the deportees with food or water during transport to anyone of the six extermination camps, even when the transports had to wait days on railroad spurs for other trains to pass. The people deported in sealed freight cars suffered from intense heat in summer, freezing temperatures in winter, and the stench of urine and excrement. Aside from a bucket, there were no provisions for sanitary requirements. Without food or water, many deportees died before the trains reached their destinations. Armed guards shot anyone trying to escape. Between the fall of 1941 and the fall of 1944, millions of people were transported by rail to the killing centres and other killing sites in German-occupied Poland and the occupied Soviet Union.
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Location: Auschwitz II-Birkenau Nazi Concentration Camp. Ofiar Niemieckiego Faszyzmu 12, 32-600 Brzezinka, Pol
Photo credit: © Jon Williamson / Alamy / Afripics
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