When I left Watchmaker's school my first job was working for a guy who had been in a camp,had the tattoo on his arm.

After I knew him well I asked him about his experiences.

His version{to which the usual disclaimers apply}was that he recalled no mass slaughter or systematic extermination,all were used for munitions and war material assembly.

Toward the end of the war the slender food resources had to be prioritised for the troops in the field and the civilian population,hence the pictures of rail-thin,corpse-like men and women.

According to him dysentery and starvation were the real culprits,believe what you will,but this has been repeated by other camp survivors I have been priviledged to know.

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