It was not a set of religious people, but their religion was Roman Catholicism.
The Poles built the original barracks, then they were employed by the Nazis (Protestant) to convert it into a concentration camp.
Birkenau (Auschwitz II) was built by the Nazis, who mainly used Jewish slave labour.
Monowitz (Auschwitz III) was a bit more complicated as it was built by private companies and employed a more varied workforce.
A concentration camp.
the concentration camp was built in 1940.
The purpose of the Auschwitz camp was to kill people or put them to work.
Mainly in 1942, it was an extension to the existing concentration camp.
About 190,000 people died in Auschwitz I.
Auschwitz is the German name for the town of Oswieciem, which is the Polish town nearby which the extermination camp was built.
To kill and exectute jews, homosexuals and people who were agianst Hitler, there were also many other people there, for many different reasons
yes
it was build to murder people
Auschwitz concentration camp and extermination centre was built by and operated by the Third Reich in the Polish town of Oshweicim in Galacia.
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.
About 965,000 Jews were murdered at Auschwitz.