Day 4 Wwii

Day 4 WWIIHolocaust

A chance for escape from Auschwitz appears for you, but you must accept leaving your young son who is simply too weak to travel. You and your son have shielded each other during your camp experience. Knowing this, should you leave and attempt the escape?

This actually happened to concentration camp inmates…

Your best friend breaks down when told of the death of his family. He decides that in the morning he will commit suicide by attacking an SS officer. Because of the Nazi practice of mass reprisal, the act will cost the lives of all 400 men in the barracks. Since you cannot change his mind, should you warn the underground leaders in the camp who will kill him to protect the interest of the larger group?


Your mother desperately needs certain medicines to survive. Medicines can only be obtained by giving in to the sexual desires of a particular SS officer who has access to medicines. Would you try to obtain the medicines this way if it is the only way to get them?


Your friend in the barracks has been found to be an informer for the SS. He acts the role of a cooperative helper, but several inmates know that he is a spy for the Germans. Should the informer be killed?


A number of inmates, including members of your family, have been put on the death list for the coming week. These individuals are essential to maintaining the underground. You have the power to replace their numbers on the death list with others who are already very sick. Would you switch the names?


In many camps, women who gave birth were automatically sent with their newborns to the ovens. A decision can be made to save the mothers by making the newborn infants “stillborn.” You (or your wife) are pregnant. Would you make the decision to kill the child to save yourself (or your wife)?


To what extent was the

Holocaust an unexpected

horror…

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Day 4 Wwii