No, it was a concentration camp/extermination camp but it did have many POWs
From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.
The purpose of the Auschwitz camp was to kill people or put them to work.
The PoW (Prisoners of War) were kept either in PoW Camps or in some Concentration Camps such as Auschwitz.
The Auschwitz concentration camp began when beat you the hell up !
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.
Auschwitz- a german POW camp.
19,000 POW's died at Auschwitz, most of them were Soviet POW's.
Auschwitz was a concentration camp.concentration and extermination camp
From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.
POW Camp #1 at Fukuoka, Japan.
Auschwitz I- Birkenau
The purpose of the Auschwitz camp was to kill people or put them to work.
The PoW (Prisoners of War) were kept either in PoW Camps or in some Concentration Camps such as Auschwitz.
Auschwitz is located in Poland.
The Auschwitz concentration camp began when beat you the hell up !
Concentration camp and Extermination camp
Heppenheim was not a designed as a POW camp, it was a sub-camp of Dachau Concentration Camp. See the link.