Forced Work Camps and Their Functions

One of accusations against the German government in the Nuremberg Court, was the use of death camps during WWII. According to these claims, German officers and more than any other, Rudelf Hess, had ordered the construction of some furnaces in thesecamps with the function of human burning. According to this claim, many of museums all over the world are exhibiting the ashes of the victims of these furnaces. In this article we consider the functions of the forced work camps and their conditions and accuracy orinaccuracy of such claims with a different approach.