You don’t kill 1,47 million people in 100 days through working people to death. Those people were largely just exterminated, as Hitler also spoke of the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe”.
I think you may also be confusing the concentration camps with the extermination camps. Read up on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Reinhard, millions were deported to one of six extermination camps the Nazis built. Or Aktion T4. There’s plenty of sources that show the intent was to kill, any slave labor was just a nice benefit.
Slaves you keep alive on purpose, because they’re no use of you dead. The Nazis did no such thing, because they preferred their victims dead.
I said they were deemed unfit. Like women and children, the elderly, etc. Of course, some women were kept for sex slaves, too. Others were kept for medical experimentation, etc etc.
Again, that doesn’t mean the camps were built for slave labor. In fact, camps like Birkenau didn’t have slave labor when it was designed and built. It wasn’t even built near any industrial capacity. Almost none of the camps did. Only once the war with the Soviets started stagnating did the Nazis facilitate slave labor at a greater scale.
Auschwitz III was a slave labor camp. Earlier camps like Auschwitz II was an extermination camp.
You don’t build a slave labor camp with enough furnaces to burn half a million corpses per year, without facilities for the prisoners to do any labor.
You don’t kill 1,47 million people in 100 days through working people to death. Those people were largely just exterminated, as Hitler also spoke of the “annihilation of the Jewish race in Europe”.
I think you may also be confusing the concentration camps with the extermination camps. Read up on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Reinhard, millions were deported to one of six extermination camps the Nazis built. Or Aktion T4. There’s plenty of sources that show the intent was to kill, any slave labor was just a nice benefit.
Slaves you keep alive on purpose, because they’re no use of you dead. The Nazis did no such thing, because they preferred their victims dead.
Yes, those 1.47 million were those deemed unfit for labor.
Nothing you said disagrees with what I said.
Plenty of those people could have worked. Slave labor was not the primary purpose of the camps.
I said they were deemed unfit. Like women and children, the elderly, etc. Of course, some women were kept for sex slaves, too. Others were kept for medical experimentation, etc etc.
Again, that doesn’t mean the camps were built for slave labor. In fact, camps like Birkenau didn’t have slave labor when it was designed and built. It wasn’t even built near any industrial capacity. Almost none of the camps did. Only once the war with the Soviets started stagnating did the Nazis facilitate slave labor at a greater scale.
Auschwitz III was a slave labor camp. Earlier camps like Auschwitz II was an extermination camp.
You don’t build a slave labor camp with enough furnaces to burn half a million corpses per year, without facilities for the prisoners to do any labor.