I'm a title. Click here to edit me                                                              Emilie

Auschwitz

 

Auschwitz was a concentration camp during The Thrid Reich, which today is one of the clearest evidence of the Nazi extermination of Jews and crimes against humnity. The camp was in 1940 brought in Oswiecim in the southwestern part of the German-occupied Poland, ca.60 km west of Krakow. It was the German SS corps, which in 1940 decided to create the Auschwitz. Main camp also known as Auschwitz 1, was built in a barracks that had housed the polish soldiers. Now was the prison camp for mainly political prisoners. The first prisoners arrived at Auschwitz 1 14 june 1940, were polish political prisoners. The camp was expanded to include the extermination camp Auschwitz 2 (Auschwitz-Birkenau) and Auschwitz 3 (Auschwitz). Furthermore came about 40 ”under camps” in the industry in the area and the prisoners, who as slave labor was leased to the surrounding German factories. Among the most feared udekommandoer was Bauhof where the prisoners with their bare hands should move building materials from the railway track to the camp. The materials used for the expansion of the camp, and the prisoners had to run lug cement and reinforcing steel 11 hours daily. In some work commands, some of the prisoners should lug wood, in other shovels gravel pit. Female prisoners risked to stand in water up to the chest and cleaning ponds to be used for fish farming in the marshy region along the River Sola. For them, life expectancy was not three months, but only a few weeks. Auschwits 2 – Birkenau was arranged in 1942 on a flat, seampy area about 2 km from the main camp. It made a large number of prisoner barracks. After a trial with gassing of prisoners at Auschwitz, Birkenau became the Nazis` largest and most efficient extermination machinery in the form of gas chambers and crematoria. From spring 1944 the railroad tracks that led Jews from all over Europe to the area, led directly into the Birkenau camp, as many people effectively and quickly led to the gas chambers. Birkenau functioned both as an axtermination and labor camps, with up to 120.000 prisoners at a time. It was in Brikenau. The notorious SS doctor Josef Mengele conducted madical experiments on twins. On january 27, 1945 liberated the Russian Red Army Auschwitz and the 7.650 prisoners who were still alive. Now estimated the camp´s former commandant Rudolf Hoess that a total of about three million people most of them Jews from Eastern Europe, but also Gypsie, Russians and Germans were killed in Auschwitz in 1942-44. The figure is now downgraded, and include Auschwitz Museum estimates that approximately1.1 million : 1 million Jews from 70 to 75.000 non Jewish Poles, 21.000 Gypsies, 15.000 Soviet POWs and 10-15.000 from other countries.