A 40 acre piece of land is attributed to over 2 million deaths, this is more than the total number of British and American soldiers combined who died in World War II . This small area was called Auschwitz and it caused both mental and physical inhumanity to the prisoners who remained there and died. Mental inhumanity is an act against someone or a group of people, considered immorally wrong, that affects their thoughts or feelings. Physical inhumanity is an act against one or more people considered immorally wrong, which harms their body and health. Both of these acts of inhumanity were committed not only in Auschwitz but in every extermination camp established during the Holocaust. Edward Bond, a playwright who lived during World War II, states that "Humanity has become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz" (BrainyQuote 1). This means that when humanity becomes a privilege for some and not a natural right for all, then things like Auschwitz and, consequently, the Holocaust happen. The death camps of the Holocaust were considered both mentally and physically inhumane; their overall effect shows the true level of inhumanity they installed. The death camps were mentally inhumane for the prisoners; especially during the first days because most of the inmates had some family members taken away and killed. The camps tore families apart and people watched as their loved ones left to be killed. Elie Wiesel talks about the last time he saw his mother and sister and how when he got off the train he and the others were forced into groups with: “'Men on the left! Women on the right' Eight words said calmly in a different way, without emotion. Eight simple, short words, and yet that was the moment I left my... middle of paper... that the level of inhumanity in the camps must have been so great and so deeply ingrained in him for it to strike him some 33 years later still so serious that he took his own life. The full consequences of the Holocaust death camps were the levels of both mental and physical inhumanity they imposed on the prisoners there. The mental inhumanity was so severe that most of the prisoners contemplated suicide and some even committed it. Along with this was the pain and torture experienced by the prisoners due to the physical inhumanity which resulted in the deaths of over 50% of the prisoners who remained there. The total effect of both camps is shown through the inhumanity caused there. The fact that inhumanity was able to cause the deaths of approximately 6,000,000 people shows how easy it is for it to hurt other human beings. The question remains… is it possible to stop it?