Auschwitz: The Final Solution
Auschwitz was a concentration camp in Poland enforced by the Nazi Germany regime. There were three camps in one: Auschwitz I was built in 1940, Auschwitz II (Auschwitz-Birkenau) in October 1941, and Auschwitz III (Auschwitz-Monowitz) in October 1942. Auschwitz was the largest extermination camp at the time and became known as the “final solution”. An estimate of 1.1 and 1.5 million people died at the camp, ninety percent of that number were Jews, and the second largest amount of people killed were the Poles. About 83,000 Poles were killed or died during their time at Auschwitz. Auschwitz was chosen to be the “final solution” location for Jews because it was located on a junction of 44 parallel railroad tracks, all of which were used to transport
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When the Nazis took over, they used the first prisoners there which were Germans and Polish political leaders to expand the camp. The commanders forced labor upon the prisoners to increase the size of the camp. The camp’s purposes were: to burn actual or accused enemies of the Nazis, provide prisoners as laborers for companies and other enterprises, and to act as a kill zone for groups of people. There was a gas chamber located in the basement of Block 11, but a larger one was constructed beside the crematorium located there. Physicians at the camp were not like typical physicians, since they performed experiments and conducted “research” on patients. The “Black Wall” was another feature prisoners avoided since that was where the guards would execute prisoners. Auschwitz II had ten different sections bordered with electrical fences and guards patrolling all day and night. Some of the different sections include sections for: women, men, a family camp for deported Gypsies, and a camp for Jewish families that got kicked out of the ghetto. It was in this camp that Zyklon B was used to gas the prisoners. Auschwitz III provided housing for prisoners that had to work at a synthetic rubber factory located not too far from the camp. There were many prisoners transported here to work at the factories and receive Labor Education that was for non-Jewish people who violated labor discipline. I.G. Farben, which was a chemical and pharmaceutical industry invested about now 2.8 million dollars into Auschwitz
When the Nazis took over, they used the first prisoners there which were Germans and Polish political leaders to expand the camp. The commanders forced labor upon the prisoners to increase the size of the camp. The camp’s purposes were: to burn actual or accused enemies of the Nazis, provide prisoners as laborers for companies and other enterprises, and to act as a kill zone for groups of people. There was a gas chamber located in the basement of Block 11, but a larger one was constructed beside the crematorium located there. Physicians at the camp were not like typical physicians, since they performed experiments and conducted “research” on patients. The “Black Wall” was another feature prisoners avoided since that was where the guards would execute prisoners. Auschwitz II had ten different sections bordered with electrical fences and guards patrolling all day and night. Some of the different sections include sections for: women, men, a family camp for deported Gypsies, and a camp for Jewish families that got kicked out of the ghetto. It was in this camp that Zyklon B was used to gas the prisoners. Auschwitz III provided housing for prisoners that had to work at a synthetic rubber factory located not too far from the camp. There were many prisoners transported here to work at the factories and receive Labor Education that was for non-Jewish people who violated labor discipline. I.G. Farben, which was a chemical and pharmaceutical industry invested about now 2.8 million dollars into Auschwitz