Why was there a camp hospital in Auschwitz?

Conditions in the hospital. The conditions for patients in the camp hospitals in the early phase were an affront to every known concept of caring for the sick. read more

Some of the prisoners working at Auschwitz were considered useful and worth keeping alive for a while if they had skills that were needed. By 1942–43 Auschwitz had become a quite complicated group of camps. Obviously, prisoners intended for immediate gassing weren’t sent to the hospital. read more

Medicine in Auschwitz. When they organized the camp in Oświęcim in 1940, the SS gave it the same administrative makeup as the concentration camps that were already operating. Its structure thus included a Department V—camp medical service. The garrison physician (SS-Standortärzte) was head of this department. read more

Auschwitz-Birkenau: Table of Contents|Photos|Trials The camp authorities designated Blocks 19, 20, 21 and 28 as the "camp infirmary" for sick prisoners. Prisoners often referred to them as (waiting rooms for the crematoria. read more