August 6, 1942:
- "Three thousand Jews are murdered at Diatlovo, Belorussia.
Six hundred escape, more than 100 of whom form a partisan unit led by Hirsch Kaplinski; See December 1942. - "Fifteen thousand Jews from Warsaw are deported to the Treblinka death camp.
- August 6-17: "Twenty thousand Jews from Radom, Poland, are murdered at the Treblinka death camp."
- The Business of Killing
"The concentration and death camps provided German industry with new opportunities for profit.
The Nazi plan to build the camps, and especially to expand Auschwitz, led to huge building contracts.
Once built, the camps provided a cheap source of labor for mining, production of synthetic fuels, and other enterprises.
"The camp at Jawiszowice in southern Poland supplied workers for the coal mines of the Hermann Göring Works.
In Austria, Mauthausen inmates labored in hellish conditions to mine granite for the Reich's ambitious building projects.
Even the inmates' bodies furthered German industry.
Women's hair from Auschwitz, Majdanek, and other camps was sent to various manufacturing firms to be turned into felt or spun into thread to make socks for submarine crews.
The workers pictured toiled at Auschwitz.
"I.G. Farben, a massive chemical conglomerate, funded the construction of Monowitz-Buna to produce synthetic rubber, with some 10,000 prisoners from Auschwitz designated for the building project.
Experiments with the lethal chemical Zyklon B resulted in the decision to build vast new gas chambers, requiring new furnaces to incinerate the bodies.
J. A. Topf and Sons built furnaces for several camps.
Meanwhile, the DEGESCH Company received the contract to supply the extermination camps with Zyklon B.
Mass killing was definitely good for business."