Torture from the Nazis
Arrival to at the camps
For inmates arriving at the Treblinka extermination camp, it was straight to the gas chambers. Those who weren't able to make it to the gas chambers were led to the "field hospital". The field hospital was a large wooden building with a red cross flag flag flying outside it. When the people got inside they were shot through the neck then dumped in mass graves.
A view of a section of the Treblinka extermination camp. The tall walls blocking the view of the Jews entering the field hospital.
A rare photo of the people arriving at the Treblinka Death Camp.
Gas vans
Gas chambers weren't the only way of using gas to take a life, in fact, they were second after the invention of the mobile gas vans built in 1941 to kill inmates in the Chelmno Death Camp.
A mobile gas van attached to one of the gas buildings.
What to do with the evidence
The Nazis felt that burying the corpses of the dead was inefficient and couldn't be hidden because the bodies were stacking up fast. In fact, in the first three hours of arrival at the Treblinka Death Camps, the percentage to live was less than 1%. So they built large crematoriums. The crematoriums were giant ovens that cremated tons of bodies at once.
The crematoriums in the Dachau Death Camp.