Concentration camp archaeology

I know this probably seems incredibly morbid, but there has been quite a bit of research done on the subject-
Between Memory and Materiality: An Archaeological Approach to the Nazi Concentration Camps (Adrian Myers) - Academia.edu
Historische Archäologie » Concentration camp Sachsenhausen: Contemporary Archaeology and History

And ths is one used in Spain by Franco's boys, though it wasn't a death camp-
Alfredo Gonzalez-Ruibal: The archaeology of a concentration camp

 

I do not consider it morbid. I find it interesting to see how much thought went into the design of the different camps. Proof of the whole thing not being spontaneous. Plenty of planning behind it.

 

There are already people studying the archaeology of PoW camps, so I suppose it's a logical next step.

 

So they just dig ground inside the camps..?

 

But methodically, PD! They'll excavate it small areas at a time and record what they find/where they find it. It can give us insights into the camp's development, as well as a snapshot of the inmates' "lives".

 

And here's the study I meant to post originally, but the link was dead-
http://www.histarch.uni-kiel.de/2010_Theune_low.pdf

 

spontaneous,as opposed to pre meditated?as far as the choices of where to put the camps.they have to have been in areas where it was too difficult to let the news get to the towns being emptied of the future victims going to fill up that camp. more or less isolated from the cities. at the end of a railroad spur, a dead end in more ways than one. it had to be not so far, though , the captives would not survive the trip and to far for the terms of lost time in the nazis plans. it had to be centrally located to the consideration of what was being planned for the war effort from the enemies standpoint. the camps could not be in a location where everyone would die from the enviroment like in the middle of siberia, but in uncomfortable zones, which cuts down on the visitors from outside. hard to get to, as i said, yet not impossible. where they could see anyone coming and close up. hey, i am surprised they did not hide the camps underground. remember that sign , work makes you free? the jews and gypsys and catholics and all the types of folks in camps, handicapped, if they made it that far, gays , whatever the nazis did not want in their final plans, all those captive victims, they did work, like probably sewed uniforms and kept books , and whatever, they were guinea pigs for medical and scientific experiments of every idea possible that a crazy person could think up. who was that doctor? he was doing things with the prisoners, like seeing if he could change peoples eye color. supremely frankenstonian and total out of touch with the concept of humanity. in the mind of these guys, the victims were not human . isn't that odd, how much in control the leaders were over thousands and thousands of nazis? it is sort of like a brainwashing of the type in which i wonder if they had been drugged with more than the amphetamines i read about. it is like they were hypnotised.

 

maybe off topic somewhat, but not one day goes by when i don't think about world war 2 when i leave my front door. there is a air raid siren from right after the japanese bombed pearl harbor, in the cement in front of where i live. it is painted yellow , of course all chipped, and not from the 1941 period, it wouldn't last that long, and it is atop a rusted steel pole.t has not functioned , i have heard people say, since the early 1970s when it was tested the first tuesday? of every month? i wonder if it was always yellow. that would let the jap zero flyers see them from the air, and i went to the roof to see if the top of the siren was painted yellow too, yep. i live a couple of blocks north of staple center in los angeles. another thing i wanted to say was that there was no chance of the third reich success as far as world control in one government, that of the nazis, or pretty much any one thing. it would especially have been unworkable in those days. the future from now, even, you can't think of a concept like that being successful unless you have one language and one currency and tighter links between the geographical distances, and not only that , the earth is not even in the same time zones and the same seasons, so its a far fetched concept to begin with, see what happened to cesar, when he got too large and took britian, it was done. no more empire. too big. but even in any time period since the pilgrims landed here, what hitler did not take into account was the type of people american people are. there is no way, no way , ever, that hitler and the nazis would have been able to control the americans. never. paul revere, the boston tea party, never, not here. not americans. we would riot street by street first.