Auschwitz was close to a coal source and major railways.
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Auschwitz was an extermination camp, NOT a labor camp. All they did was bring in Jews, cut their hair, then put them in line to die.
before the killings of jews it was a political camp but actually before ww2 auschwitz was a military base with barracks and guard tours, this made an excellent area to build a camp
It was designed by the nazis but it was actully build by the slave workers
The three camps made up Auschwitz I, II, and IIIAushwitz 1 - was mainly a prisoner of war campAushwitz 2 or Birkenau - functioned as an extermination camp for Jews.Aushwitz 3 - was a work camp
The Buna-Werke, which made synthetic rubber, was part of the I.-G. Farben Group. It established its very own (private entreprise) concentration camp close to Auschwitz. It was called Monowitz (or Auschwitz III) and used slave labour to produced various plastics.
Work on extending Auschwitz Concentration Camp to include an extermination camp started in October 1941 and first became operational in March 1942. The main camp (a very harsh concentration camp) had been in existence since May 1940. Please see the related question.
Auschwitz was a Nazi-built extermination camp (that means that its sole purpose was to kill the detainees, and not to keep them just barely alive) in Poland.
The Buna camp (Monowitz, Auschwitz III) made various plastics for I.-G. Farben. It was the first concentration camp built by private entreprise.
The extermination camp was located in Birkenau, also known as Auschwitz II. However, in the other camps that made up the Auschwitz group or complex, prisoners were worked to death on inadequate rations. Please see the related question.
She went to Auschwitz, which was a concentration and death camp. The Nazis probably sent Anne and the others there because they weren't exactly made for hard labor, so they sent them to die.
Here's some facts which leaded Auschwitz to be the most infamous, bloodiest and cruel camp in history -Auschwitz killed 1.15 million prisoners -Auschwitz had 48 camps, 3 main and 45 sub camps, some for woman inmates. -Killed children upon arrival -Gas chambers was used in 1941 using Zyklon B gas -Auschwitz started to shoot children and elderly people when the shootings began -Done lethal experiaments on twin children's -Slave labour at the camps gave the German economy 60 million reichmarks is £125 million pound in today's money This made Auschwitz a well know camp in the nazi camp history for its cruel and unhumanity