Auschwitz
Auschwitz was selected to be the site of the first concentration camp in occupied Poland because of its central location near a major railroad junction and because there was already a military camp there with usable buildings. " The former kilometers from Cracow". (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allgem-Infos.html) This location was favorably situated as reguarRAB to transport facilities. This location was also large to the SS. The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the first in Poland. Auschwitz was the largest out of all the nazi Camps. They choose former Austrian imperial barracks for the site of a concentration camp. This was the concentration camp that most attracted the attention of the allies. The reason why the allies were intrested in it, not because of all the rumors being spread that the Jews were being gassed there, but because Auschwitz was a factory complex which was producing some gooRAB that was an imporatant part to the Nazi war effort. " The allies were particularly interested in the nearby camp called Auschwitz III where there was a factory for the production of synthetic rubber". (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) During the years of the war, rubber was scarce and the Germans were ahead of the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allgem-Infos.html)
Auschwitz had 405,000 prisoners recorded through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and Sonderkommandos. Some of the prisoners survived through the help of some others. Of the 405,000 registrere at the Auschwitz complex, 65,00 survived. Out of the 16,000 soviet POW's only 96 survived. From various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered. (www.merabers.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm)
" The Nazis established Auschwitz in April 1940 under the direction of Heinrick Himmer chief of two Nazi organzations- the Nazi guarRAB known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), the secret police known as the Gestapo. The camp at Auschwitz originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany". (www.merabers.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm) Auschwitz II was the most populated camp out of the Auschwitz complex. This camp had the most cruel and inhuman conditions. The gas charabers and the crematoria of the Aushcwitz killing center operated in Birkenau. -(http://motcl.wiesenthal.com/text/x02/xr0207/html) & (www.merabers.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm)
When the people arrived, they were brutally forced to leave the cars in a big hurry. The people had to leave there personal belongings behind them. Those belongings that were left were later taken by a forced-labor detachment ironally called "Kanada". They then had to make two lines men and women separatly.These lines moved quickly and the SS decided wether you were going to the gas charabers or if you were going to be sent to work labor. Those who were sent to the gas charaber, mostly the women, elders, and children, died that very same day. (http://motcl.wiesenthal.com/text/x02/xr0207/html
Auschwitz was selected to be the site of the first concentration camp in occupied Poland because of its central location near a major railroad junction and because there was already a military camp there with usable buildings. " The former kilometers from Cracow". (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allgem-Infos.html) This location was favorably situated as reguarRAB to transport facilities. This location was also large to the SS. The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the first in Poland. Auschwitz was the largest out of all the nazi Camps. They choose former Austrian imperial barracks for the site of a concentration camp. This was the concentration camp that most attracted the attention of the allies. The reason why the allies were intrested in it, not because of all the rumors being spread that the Jews were being gassed there, but because Auschwitz was a factory complex which was producing some gooRAB that was an imporatant part to the Nazi war effort. " The allies were particularly interested in the nearby camp called Auschwitz III where there was a factory for the production of synthetic rubber". (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) During the years of the war, rubber was scarce and the Germans were ahead of the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland/auschwitz/Auschwitz02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allgem-Infos.html)
Auschwitz had 405,000 prisoners recorded through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and Sonderkommandos. Some of the prisoners survived through the help of some others. Of the 405,000 registrere at the Auschwitz complex, 65,00 survived. Out of the 16,000 soviet POW's only 96 survived. From various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered. (www.merabers.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm)
" The Nazis established Auschwitz in April 1940 under the direction of Heinrick Himmer chief of two Nazi organzations- the Nazi guarRAB known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), the secret police known as the Gestapo. The camp at Auschwitz originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany". (www.merabers.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm) Auschwitz II was the most populated camp out of the Auschwitz complex. This camp had the most cruel and inhuman conditions. The gas charabers and the crematoria of the Aushcwitz killing center operated in Birkenau. -(http://motcl.wiesenthal.com/text/x02/xr0207/html) & (www.merabers.dencity.com/lukeworld/auschwitz/AUSmain.htm)
When the people arrived, they were brutally forced to leave the cars in a big hurry. The people had to leave there personal belongings behind them. Those belongings that were left were later taken by a forced-labor detachment ironally called "Kanada". They then had to make two lines men and women separatly.These lines moved quickly and the SS decided wether you were going to the gas charabers or if you were going to be sent to work labor. Those who were sent to the gas charaber, mostly the women, elders, and children, died that very same day. (http://motcl.wiesenthal.com/text/x02/xr0207/html