{"id":512,"date":"2009-07-27T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T01:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=512"},"modified":"2009-07-27T19:43:02","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T01:43:02","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-july-27-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 27, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Restricted Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;standing bunker&#8221; was a cruel specialty at Auschwitz concentration camp. The Political Department ran the main camp&#8217;s block 11. No inmates lived in the block, which was always locked. Its basement served as a prison. In addition to 28 cells, the basement held the standing bunker, the collective name for four cells, each smaller than a square meter. A prisoner ordered to the standing bunker had to crawl through a small opening near the floor. The cell was dark with only one air hole. The condemned was locked into the standing bunker, where he could not lie down, for a number of nights, while having to march to work during the day. When several inmates were imprisoned in one of the standing bunkers, the already restricted space became even tighter. A prisoner could be sentenced to several nights in the standing bunker if he had relieved himself behind a building or had picked fruit from a tree near his workplace.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/025320884X\/theasylumeclecti\">Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not even particularly claustrophobic and this one made me start to have a panic attack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Restricted Yet Truly Morbid Fact! The &#8220;standing bunker&#8221; was a cruel specialty at Auschwitz concentration camp. The Political Department ran the main camp&#8217;s block 11. No inmates lived in the block, which was always locked. Its basement served as a prison. In addition to 28 cells, the basement held the standing bunker, the collective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}