If you begin to look through history you can trace the beginnings of the Holocaust as far back as 1933, when the Nazi party of Germany, led by Adolf Hitler, came to power. Soon after Hitler’s anti- Jew campaign began with the “Nuremberg Laws,” which defined the meaning of being …show more content…
It was first opened in the Spring of 1940 and run by Rudolf Höss. Auschwitz was originally supposed to be used as a concentration camp for Polish citizens arrested after Germany annexed the country in 1939, but once Hitler’s Final Solution became official, Auschwitz was deemed as an ideal location for a death camp. Since it was in the center of all German occupied countries and in close proximity to the rail lines used by the Nazi camps it was seen as an easy way to transport all prisoners to their death. How ever, not all the prisoners were automatically exterminated. Who ever was healthy was employed in slave labor and forced to make ammunition, synthetic rubber and other products essential to the Nazi’s effort in the