2015年9月1日 · When the management at the Auschwitz Memorial installed sprinklers outside the former Nazi concentration camp in Poland, they thought they would create some cool comfort …

Real Showers. In order to prevent the introduction and spread of disease, any inmate admitted or transferred to a German wartime camp had to undergo a hygienic routine prescribed by camp …

In the prisoner baths, the new arrivals had their heads and bodies shaven, were disinfected and showered. The SS imposed this procedure not only for reasons of hygiene – it was also …

2016年12月15日 · These personal snapshots of World War II soldiers bathing and swimming are a record of the unselfconscious camaraderie between young men at war during a period when …

2011年11月25日 · Prisoners prepare to take a shower in a German prison camp under the supervision of German guards. To prevent the spread of vermin and disease, the Germans …

2015年8月31日 · To prevent panic among naked prisoners on their way to die, Nazi guards promised group showers. But after the steel doors closed, Zyklon B pellets would drop into the …

2015年8月31日 · Recent visitors to the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp in Poland were alarmed to see sprinklers installed at the entrance of the site, where over a …

2020年10月30日 · On April 30, 1945, photojournalists David E. Scherman and Lee Miller produced one of the most controversial photographic series of the twentieth century; while …

2016年3月1日 · Brausebad, the old German word for shower, was changed to Dusche because some concentration camps called their gas chambers ‘ showers’ to trick prisoners into thinking …

I think the point here is that being circumcised in 1940s Germany was a sign of being Jewish. I remember seeing a movie (I think it was Au Revoir les Enfants) that had a scene of Nazis …