Some of the weaker prisoners, Dr. Vasseur came to understand, had been turned into slaves by their cellmates.
Gangs, known as "Raiders," preyed on weaker prisoners, maiming and killing for supplies and money.
I felt that it was a bad idea to draw more attention to some of the weaker prisoners, prisoners who might not have the self-esteem or physical prowess to withstand such barbs.
Now the killing of weak and sick prisoners was carried out by guards or camp doctors, sometimes in gas chambers built on site.
A dialogue of definition, the Euthyphro takes up the subject of reverence or piety, a virtue that traditionally bears on the keeping of oaths, the treatment of the weak (such as prisoners and suppliants), family relationships, and respect toward the gods.
Weak and wounded, the prisoners knew they could not survive the water and the cold temperatures, they said.
The former presents Jews as weak - as passive prisoners only able to gain freedom because of outside intervention - while the latter underscores the strength and active resistance of a people who refused to let the Nazis decide their fate for them.
"Drugs... create a violent and fearsome society, particularly with the weaker the more vulnerable prisoners who are forced into drug use or increasing their own drug use for the sake of those who run the little businesses in there," he said.
It makes you weak," says the blind prisoner.
When they came out they were very weak," he said of the prisoners caned before him.
