Critical Thinking Questions What factors contributed to survival in Auschwitz? What were conditions like for Mengele’s victims? How did women’s experiences vary in the camp, and what was the impact of pregnancy on prisoners in the camp? Why did Himmler opt to march prisoners out of the camps, rather than simply liquidating the camps as had occurred during Operation Reinhard? How did the Nazis dehumanize prisoners in the labor camps, including Auschwitz?