Research Paper On Auchwitz

1 Auchwitz Berkenua Auchwitz Brikenua was established by a man named Rudolph Hoss. Rudolph identified the Silesia town of Oswiecim, witch was located in Southern Poland. Rudolph thought it was a site for a concentration camp. The foundation of the camp was initially planned to be an extermination camp. When the plans for the camp were approved by Hitler the nazi's changed the name of upper Silesia to Auchwitz Brikenua. Then Heinrich Himmler ordered construction of the concentration camp on April 27, 1940. By October 1941 the camp was ready. Once the camp was ready they started to bring Jews' to the camp. They would first tell them to put their stuff in a corner. The Nazis would tell them to take off their clothes because they we going to shower, so they listened and went inside a gas chamber, but they had no idea what was going to happen.
As Soviet units approach, the SS evacuates to the west the prisoners of the Auschwitz concentration camp complex.During the march, SS guards shoot anyone who cannot continue.As many as 15,000 die during the forced marches. Thousands more were killed in the days before the evacuation. Soviet troops enter the Auschwitz camp complex and liberate approximately 7,000 prisoners remaining in the camp. During the existence of Auschwitz, the SS camp authorities killed nearly one million Jews from across Europe. Other victims included approximately 74,000 Poles, approximately 21,000 Roma (Gypsies), and approximately 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war. Mean while the Jews that were in Auschwitz are in Wodzislaw and Gliwice, the prisoners will be put on unheated freight trains and deported to concentration camps in