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Shootings At Buchenwald
Shootings was one of the ways Jews were killed at Buchenwald. According to Paschen, "If a prisoner attempted to escape he was shot and ten of his countrymen were hung before the entire camp as a warning to the rest. The guard that did the shooting was given a three week furlough and one hundred marks as his reward and many a new prisoner was tricked into stepping out of line so that an S.S. man could shoot him." Even though shootings only took place once in awhile, there were still many victims. "Another way to kill prisoners was used in the stable. The prisoners had to enter a fake infirmary room and place themselves under a height gauge. At this time, an SS man killed them with a revolver by shooting through a small hole placed at the height
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