Auschwitz: Anti-Nazi Concentration Camps

“…Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same

In May 1940, poles were being executed and they were also, sent to do service at work camps. Also others places such as concentration camps. The first prisoners that arrived at the camp in June 1940 they were almost all polish civilians and as administration and staff was established. Himmler one day visited Auschwitz and commanded that right away they should be holding 30,000

Auschwitz was a death and labor concentration camp during World war II. It was founded in April, 1940 by Hitler and the SS, and located in Poland. The camp was extremely violent, murderous, and an evil place. It was the home to the murder of 1.5 million Jews. Sadly it had the most deaths of any concentration camp ever.

The background of the camp is interesting. The sign above the main entrance doesn’t really make sense. It reads, “ARBEIT MACHT FREI,” which meant, “WORK MAKES ONE FREE.” If you can tell it doesn’t make sense because the work that they did in that camp didn’t free anyone. It actually did the opposite. They worked all the prisoners to death or very close. The location of Auschwitz is located near Cracow, Poland. It

lasted up to 4 hours and if you were weak and fell, you were killed (“Auschwitz

During World War 2, the Nazi's created several concentration camps, but the one that was labeled one of the worst was Jasenovac. First of all, it was located in Croatia. Jasenovac was a complex of five smaller camps, Kapje, Brocia, Ciglana, Kozara, and Stara Gradiška, located 62 miles from the city of Zagreb. Furthermore, the camp was the largest in the area with a death count of 77,000-99,000 dead. The majority of those killed were Serbs. Many dies when the administration of Jasenovac blew up the camp at the end of the war to try and conceal their misdeeds and crimes. Specifically to the camps treatment of priisoners, they were terrible. Many people were killed or tortured in malicious ways. They had their throats cut with specifically made

In 1940, Auschwitz was built in the city of Oswiecim (Auschwitz-Birkenau: History & Overview). During the beginning, the camp was originally used to simply scare Poles who disagreed with the German Rule. It later became the general network for all of the concentration camps. The camp had an immense display and could hold numerous inmates. “Together this complex was the largest of all the Nazi death camps across Europe and could hold upwards of 150,000 inmates at any given time” (Auschwitz-Birkenau: History & Overview).

Auschwitz - Birkenau was a concentration camp built in nineteen forty controlled by the nazi party, built five months after germany invaded poland. The camp was selected to be used a death camp in february nineteen forty because of the location near another death camp called Birkenau. Auschwitz was intended to be a short term holding camp until the prisoners could be shipped to the gassing facility at nearby birkenau. “Although prisoners were supposed to be there for less than a month, in nineteen forty one the camp housed over eleven thousand prisoners, by the end of the year the camp housed around eighteen thousand prisoners.” ( Deem 7). The camp was run by Rudolf Hoss, the first commandant at Auschwitz. The camp had a gate in which new prisoners entered which bore a phrase “ Work will set you free”. In the beginning prisoners were instructed to run through the gates in groups of five and the ones who couldn’t keep up were shot.

Auschwitz was a concentration/death camp made by the Nazi's. It was the largest of the Nazi camps and was the most mass killing center that was ever created. 1.1 million People were sent and murdered at Auschwitz, mostly Jews, and has become a symbol of death, The Holocaust, and the destruction of European Jewry.

Auschwitz is one of the most famous concentration camps in history. It’s located 31m (50 km) west of Krakow Poland. This awful camp was opened in 1940, and originally was a prison for Polish criminals, and prisoners of war. In 1945 it became a sprawling complex. Historians estimated 1.1-1.6 million died. 960,000 or 90% were Jews, 74,000 were non Jews, 21,000 were Gypsies, 15,000 were Soviets, and 10,000 were Czechs, French, Germans, Austrians, or Yugoslavs. Over 200,000 perished children. Hundred thousand died of starvation, disease, individual violence, and perished Nazi execution chambers ( designed for mass murders). Nazi carry extermination plan was to deport victims to concentration

Auschwitz was Established in 1940 by Germans (Memorial and Museum). There were 3 main camps located 37 miles west of Krakow. They were all open for the soul purpose of killing. Auschwitz I opened in April 1940. Auschwitz II was opened October 1941 and one year from then they opened Auschwitz III. All three camps were big and did a lot of killing. Rudolph Hoss was the first commandant of Auschwitz (Auschwitz United States Holocaust).

Auschwitz is a concentration camp that located in Oswiecim, Poland. It was established in May 26 on 1940 and it was liberation by the soviet army in January 27 on 1945. The German SS use the Auschwitz for slave laborers,medical experiments, and other thing. The estimated number of the death is about 2-3 million. The estimated was not sure because most of people just arrive was sent to death without recording it.

Hitler first established concentration camps when he came into power in 1933. He started with one concentration camp, which then grew into more than 100 camps. There were two different types of camps; concentration camps, for slave labour and death camps, for systematic extermination of “undesirables” including Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally retarded and others classed as undesirables. Concentration camps were solely made to kill as many Jews as possible. When first approaching the concentration camps in cattle trucks, Jews were stripped of their possessions and forced to have communal showers. They were herded naked into large rooms with fixed showerheads. The prisoners were led into showers on the belief they were being sterilized

Hitler’s “Final Solution” led to the demise of millions, and through our presentation, we reflect on a time of darkness. Death Camps or, “Extermination Camps” such as Auschwitz were meant for the indiscriminate and deliberate killing of millions of Jews, Soviets, Gypsies and disabled people. In the beginning, Auschwitz was a labor camp in order to speed the expansion of the camp, until expansion ended in 1943 and Auschwitz became a Death Camp. Auschwitz I, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Auschwitz-Monowitz opened one after the other in 1941-3. All parts of Auschwitz killed people by means of gas chambers, shootings, medical experiments. Medical experiments included removal of organs and extremities, poisoning among other things.

To start off, early concentration camps were a hard place to stay during this time of war. They would stick them in a cabin with other prisoners and shove them on a wooden bed. At first they went to a small camp, but then they were transferred to a bigger one. The first ones were for the people that just arrived and then they switched to a bigger camp. The first concentration camp ever was Dachau, and it was originally made to hold political prisoners. After a while it turned into a bigger camp that held, Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, clergyman, and anyone who spoke out against Nazi’s. The population grew quickly of these people. Dachau was a temporary camp and they were quick to build bigger and more permanent camps. Hitler made Heinrich HImmler in charge of