Auschwitz III: Monowitz During World War II

Auschwitz III – Monowitz was constructed on October 1942. It housed more than 10,000 people and they were assigned to work for slave labor. This camp was the most important one to the Germans because this camp produced synthetic rubber, fuel, and military equipment. Due to all the work that the people were producing in Auschwitz III, I.G. Farben invested more then 700 million Reichsmarks which is about 2.8 million US dollars in 1941. From May 1941 up until July 1942, the SS officers have transported prisoners from Auschwitz I to Auschwitz III. Which in result boosted their popularity in the camp. Not to mention that at the time, the camp also had Labor Education Camps for non-Jewish prisoners who were detected for violating German-imposed labor
The SS forces enforced nearly 60,000 prisoners to tramp West away from Auschwitz camps. Before the death march, thousands of people were killed in the camps and also during the death march itself. The death marching consisted of a 30 mile walk to Gleiwitz and 35 miles to Wodzislaw which was in the western part of Upper Silesia. The SS guards shot anyone who fell and could no longer walk. Because of harsh weather conditions, the prisoners died from the severe cold, hunger, and exposure. Close to 15,000 people died during the evacuation marches from Auschwitz camps and their sub camps. Upon arrival to Gleiwitz and Wodzislaw, the poor prisoners were put on unheated freight trains and transported to concentration camps that were located in Germany. The locations of the camps where in Flossenburg, Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Gross Rosen, and Mauthausen. The transportation of the people to these camps obviously did not offer any food, water or shelter. And as a result a lot of people died from the long torcherous ride. When the Soviets finally entered all three Auschwitz camps, they liberated around 7,000 prisoners. But that was not nearly as close to the amount of people that were deported to these camps from the get go . (Museum.
To understand the numbers better of these barbaric annihilations, approximately 1,095,00 Jews were deported to Auschwitz of whom 960,000 died; 147,000 of Poles deported of which 74,000 died; Soviet prisoners of war in which 15,000 deported and all have died, and other nationalities of 25,000 people deported of which 12,000 died including the Roma (gypsies) 23,000 people added to the death toll. It is impossible to know the exact numbers of deaths because Jews that were pronounced unfit to work were never officially registered as Auschwitz prisoners. For that reason, it is impossible to calculate the exact numbers of lives lost in the camps. The thousands of people who have escaped or survived the camps, refused to return to their former homes. Those lands had become graveyards to them, and they could not face the prospect or resuming life in those countries. There is no doubt that this was the biggest mass murder in history. All these souls lost their lives in a tragic and horrific death. Unfourtneley while all these murders were taking place the rest of the world was sleeping. The way it affected the world was by opening everyone's eyes to what catastrophe could happen if no one was listening or watching. There is no turning time back now. The only thing we could do is remember all the lives that were taken from us and never let history repeat itself. (Museum.