BRAVO! Why Did They Shave Heads In Concentration Camps

October 07, 2021

In the second chamber an army of teenage girls sheared the newcomers body hair with scissors and razors. Typically their regular clothing was taken away and replaced by a striped uniform although again this depended on both the camp.

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Prisoners at Auschwitz as in other German concentration camps had all the hair on their bodies cut and shaved off during the induction procedures.

Why did they shave heads in concentration camps. Shaving off prisoners hair was useful for protecting the camp guards from lice that might carry typhus. This procedure was applied for reasons of hygiene and escape prevention. The Nazis werent concerned with dehumanizing or humiliating the Jews or using.

The Nazis shaved their victims heads to make them look the same thin uniformed wretched figures in a shuffling line into the gas chamber. They were then forced to have their head shaved and forced to shower usually in front of hundreds of other people and the SS guards. By stripping away their humanity they made it.

13140 after her hair is shorn in Auschwitz.

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