Meals at Auschwitz were not typical meals that people ate in their own homes. This lead to many people dying of starvation . People at Auschwitz received three meals a day but they were not healthy meals . At noon they received only a half liter of soup. The soup contained bits of potato, rutabaga, a pitch of grains, rye flour, and Avo food extract. On a daily basis, those forced into hard labor consumed on average about 1,300 calories. Those prisoners in extreme exhaustion consumed about 1,700 …show more content…
Could you believe that one day prisoners were working and you're just sitting around waiting for the gas chamber? Prisoners never knew when they would be sent to a gas chamber because the Nazis told them that they were going to take a shower, then after the shower the prisoner will have a meal, and after meal be put to work. When they were put into the gas chamber they would be in there for several hours to ensure complete suffocation. These gas chambers that prisoners went into were either called Bunker 1 or the red house. Inside prisoners would definitely suffocate because of the prussic acid that was forced into the room. Suffocation came within a few minutes because their bodies weren’t healthy to begin with. The prisoners, whose bodies were diseased already, couldn’t fight off the deadly