know was that merely two weeks before, over five thousand Jews were deported to the concentration camps in the East so that the city would appear less crowded.
             Hitler succeeded in two things with Theresiensadt; one he fooled the world with his well-planned hoax and propagation film, making people believe the Jews were treated humanely. The other success was, that he kept Theresienstadt as close to a ghetto in the sense that still fit the purpose and definition; to kill off as many Jews as quickly and efficiently as possible. At one point there were 88, 000 people living in an area no bigger then seven-football fields long and five football fields wide; all of them were to fit in 219 houses, 14 military barracks and administration buildings. Any new arrivals at that point were jammed into cellars lacking plumbing and with no heat, or windows, and sometimes no floors, which meant the people would sleep in the dirt. They were crammed into any space available including attics, which also had lack of heat and plumbing and were stifling in the sum
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