Auschwitz is the German name for Oswiemcim.
A concentration camp.
mainly extermination
the concentration camp was built in 1940.
Auschwitz is the German name for the town of Oswieciem, which is the Polish town nearby which the extermination camp was built.
It was built to exterminate the jews because it was part of the final solution.
Blackpool's stadium was originally built in 1877
Rochester Castle was originally built in the 1080's
Auschwitz concentration camp and extermination centre was built by and operated by the Third Reich in the Polish town of Oshweicim in Galacia.
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.
From 1772-1918 the town was in the Austrian Empire Oswiecim, and Auschwitz was its German name.
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.