Hoess
Auschwitz Birkenau was established at Auschwitz but Auschwitz is now called Oświęcim.
Auschwitz was established by Heinrich Himmler.
Auschwitz concentration camp was first established on March 22, 1933
Auschwitz was created on the orders of Himmler and established by the work of Hoess.
Auschwitz was established as a concentration camp in June 1940 and later expanded.
October 1941
Auschwitz was established in May 1940. It's purpose was to carry out Hitler's Final Solution to the Jewish problem; to kill Europe's Jews.
The summer of 1940.
Auschwitz is infamous for being the location of a group of concentration camps established by the Nazis, used for the forced labor and systematic murder of human beings in World War 2.
The Polish name for the place known as Auschwitz by the Germans is "Oświęcim." It is a town in southern Poland, and the Auschwitz concentration camp was established nearby during World War II. The name Oświęcim is still used today to refer to the town and its historical significance.
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.
The largest Nazi death camp was Auschwitz, located in occupied Poland, near the town of Oświęcim. Established in 1940, it became the primary site for the mass extermination of Jews and other targeted groups during the Holocaust. Auschwitz consisted of several camps, including Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and Auschwitz III-Monowitz, with Birkenau serving as the main extermination center. It is estimated that over a million people were killed there.