# As Auschwitz Crumbles ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61I8iix1KXL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Andrew Curry]] - Full Title: As Auschwitz Crumbles - Category: #books ## Highlights - The notorious SS camp supervisor Karl Fritzsch – he was the first to suggest using the poisonous Zyklon B to gas prisoners - greeted new arrivals with a speech: “You have arrived here not at a sanatorium, but at a German concentration camp, from which the only exit is through the chimney of its crematorium.” ([Location 79](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0051H5GNS&location=79)) - Prisoners were crammed into crumbling barracks and provided only a few hundred calories a day. Most died of starvation, exhaustion, and diseases, such as typhus and dysentery. Beatings, torture, and executions were commonplace. Camp doctors conducted experiments - frequently fatal - on prisoners, looking for ways to sterilize women with radiation or toxic chemicals and studying the effects of extreme cold or starvation on the human body. In the first few years of the camp, 80 percent of new inmates died within two months. ([Location 83](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0051H5GNS&location=83))