![]() ![]() The camp became a place the Nazis "tested their whole attempt to control childbirth" and where some of Heinrich Himmler's most notorious medical experiments would take place. ![]() Ms Helm, who wrote If This Is A Woman: Inside Ravensbrück, Hitler's Concentration Camp for Women, said although the numbers were relative to the hundreds of thousands murdered at camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka, the atrocities of Ravensbrück needed to be out there with the rest of it. ![]() In addition to those murdered in the chamber, anywhere up to 50,000 died at the camp, and tens of thousands were sent east to death camps. "The camp became so overcrowded and the conditions so appalling, they decided to build a gas chamber to exterminate women, simply to make room," researcher and author Sarah Helm told PM. There, they built a relatively small gas chamber and proceeded to kill up to 6,000 women. After Auschwitz's gas chambers were shut down during the final months of World War II, it is said some of its parts ended up in Ravensbrück, Hitler's concentration camp reserved for women only. ![]()
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