It role was to run as a concentration camp but also as a extermination camp, Its role was to kill as much people as possible whiles still making profit from the slave workers
It was an extermination camp for Jews.
Auschwitz was composed of three main camps: Auschwitz I, the original camp and administrative center; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, which was primarily a extermination camp; and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp. Additionally, there were numerous subcamps associated with these main sites. Together, these facilities played a central role in the Holocaust, where over a million people were murdered.
They liberated the most infamous camp - Auschwitz.
I-G Farben was a vast German chemicals conglomerate ('mega-corporation'), which built its own (!) concentration camp (Auschwitz III, also known as Monowitz) as part of the Auschwitz complex of camps. I-G Farben used slave labour to make various plastics. The workers were selected at Auschwitz II and under SS supervision and discipline.
Auschwitz I Stammlager, Auschwitz II Birkenau and Auschwitz III Monowitz
Auschwitz Birkenau was established at Auschwitz but Auschwitz is now called Oświęcim.
Auschwitz I- Birkenau
It had 3 sections. Auschwitz-I, which served as a working camp. Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the death camp. Auschwitz-III, it was used to provide slave labor to the nearby industry.
Auschwitz had 3 big 'main' camps. They were called Auschwitz I, Auschwitz Birkenau and Auschwitz Monowitz. Monowitz was really a sub camp which was commonly used and when expanded did become as part of the main camps. Out of the lot, Auschwitz Birkenau was the biggest and most feared of as this part was about Extermination when the Final Solution was putted in place.
From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.
The Commandant of Auschwitz was Rudolf Hoess.
Auschwitz is located in Poland.