Auschwitz II-Birkenau

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Auschwitz included two more camps in which prisoners were used for forced labor and strictly for annihilation. Auschwitz II also named Auschwitz-Birkenau was constructed on October 1941. It was ruled by the order of Heinrich Luitpold Himmler commander of the "Schutzstaffel" more common to be known as the SS (Protection Squadron), and was located in the village of Birkenau, near the Polish city of Oswiecim. Himmler was known to be as the most powerful man in Nazi Germany and one of the people who was responsible for the Holocaust. Together this combination was the largest of all the Nazi death camps across Europe could hold up to 150,000 inmates at any given time. Trains where the number one source of transfers done by the Nazis. The trains …show more content…

Due to deportations from all of those countries, the German plan to murder the Jews of Europe achieved its highest goal. In mid November of 1943, the SS ordered that Auschwitz II -Birkenau and Auschwitz III – Monowitz would become independent concentration camps. Auschwitz I remained under the SS Garrison commander of all SS units assigned to Auschwitz and was considered the dominant one of all commandments. SS Garrison was made up of Germans who held German citizenships. It also included SS men who previously had a citizenship in occupied countries or in the Third Reich countries like in Romania, Slovakia and Hungary. SS offices that held prisoners records and valuables along those who managed prisoners labor deployment continued to centrally run from Auschwitz I. On November 1944, Auschwitz II and Auschwitz I was reunified. (Auschwitz-Birkenau: History & …show more content…

Zyklon-B gas was introduced into this concentration camp system, which meant only one thing. Murder. They have disguised the chambers as big holy shower rooms so that it would trick the people into thinking they were going to just shower. The Nazi's camouflage was very successful in misleading the Jews until the very last moment. Rumors about the death camps were met with skepticism. No one with any common sense could believe such gruesome acts were carried out. Unfortunately the success of the gas has become permanent for all gas chambers of Auschwitz because it killed over hundreds of people in just minutes. And it was the perfect killling machine under disguise. Crematory ovens were also built around March of 1943 to get rid of all the corpses left behind or for strict annihilation. The Nazi's have operated the gas chambers up until Fall of 1944. On October 7,1944, hundred of prisoners were assigned to get cremated at the crematory. Once they have realized they were going to get killed, the prisoners stood up against the SS guards. Three of the SS guards were killed and the prisoners blew up the crematorium and the gas chamber. The way they were able to get the explosives was by smuggling it through Jewish women into the camp who were originally assigned for forced labor at a nearby army ground. The Germans of course retaliated back and killed everyone involved in the scheme. The Jewish

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