ARCHITECTURE OF CONCENTRATION CAMPS

TECHNOLOGY

When looking at the integration of technology you can begin by looking at it a few different ways. The first way to look at it is the technology for mass murder. When the nazis were designing the concentration camps, the crematory specifically, they designed the furnaces to be able to incinerate as many prisoners as possible per day. It was estimated that they would burn up to 10,000 prisoners in a 24 hour period. 

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Another way of looking at technology of concentration camps is the camp itself. One of the things that is so often overlooked it the fact that someone had to sit down and create a plan for a camp with the intention of wiping out a race of people. Before the holocaust there was no design or standard for a death camp capable of killing millions of people. They had to think about every detail from how the prisoners would get to the camps, and then how they would keep them in. Some of the ways they were able to do this was two rows of electrically charged barbed wire fences, armed guards watching from towers at all times, as well as keeping the prisoners in small tight places that were easily able to be watched over. Another obstacle that they had to overcome when designing the camps was keeping what they were actually doing a secret. They had to create other camps that were decoys to make it seem as though the living conditions were not as horrible as they were for the prisoners.