No, the creator of Auschwitz modeled it off of other camps but it was created to kill more with a different gas (zeon) with bigger gas chambers ___ Chemlno was the first extermination camp, followed by Belzec. Routine mass gassings at Chemno began on 8 December 1941. Note, however, that Auschwitz was first established as a large and very harsh concentration camp in May 1940.
Auschwitz and it was located in Nazi-Occupied Poland.
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Auschwitz Birkenau, it acts as an death camp but it's an extermination camp.
The death camp was called "Auschwitz".
Auschwitz (Oswiecim in polish)
Parts of Auschwitz I and II have been preserved as a museum.
Auschwitz-Birkenau was a Nazi death camp during WWII. It was infamous for the fact that most people shipped there where executed.
Germany! that is not correctAUSCHWITZ Auschwitz, located in Poland, was Nazi Germany's largest concentration camp. It was established by order of Himmler on April 27, 1940. At first, it was small because it was a work camp for Polish and Soviet prisoners of war. It became a death camp in 1941. "Auschwitz was divided into three areas: Auschwitz 1 was the camp commander's headquarters and administrative offices. Auschwitz 2 was called Birkenau and it was the death camp with forty gas chambers. Auschwitz 3 was a slave labor camp."
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From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.
The city in southwestern Poland, the site of the largest Nazi death camp during WW2 is Auschwitz
Oswiemcim, better known by its German name - Auschwitz.