What was Auschwitz so-important in the holocaust?

Answer 1

I'm not sure about its "importance" to the Nazi regime but . . .

Auschwitz was a German concentration camp set up by the SS to quickly exterminate captured Jewish residents of Europe. The ones who were deemed unfit for labor (elderly people, women, young children) were immediately put to death. Those who could work were shipped to labor camps and normally worked until they died.

You could say it's importance to the regime was it was a key piece in the Nazi's "Final Solution."

Answer 2

The Auschwitz complex of camps was the biggest Nazi extermination camp. At the very minimum 1.1 million victims were murdered there, and at least 85% of them were Jewish.

At its height, it could kill 10,000 people a day. Besides killing Jews it also housed slave labor units where Jews, Gypsies and others deemed to be "sub humans" went to, to work for the Nazi's often in hard labor and inhumane conditions. The main purpose was to have the Jews do work, while helping the Nazis with the war effort.

Answer 3

The Auschwitz group of concentration camps including the extermination (death) camp at Birkenau (Auschwitz II) was the biggest and had the highest death toll of all: at least 1.1 million victims were slaughtered there or worked to death. (About 90% of them were Jews).

Answer 4

It was the largest killing centre.

In current discourse about the Holocaust Auschwitz can be used as a term to describe the camp system as a whole.