When was the third Auschwitz built?

Answer 1

The original camp at Auschwitz was established in May 1940 as a large and very harsh concentration camp, initially intended mainly for Polish patriots and intellectuals.

The extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau (Auschwitz II) was built in 1941-42 about one 1.5 miles from the original camp and became fully operational in the spring of 1942.

Auschwitz-Monowitz (Auschwitz III) followed in 1942, built by I-G. Farben. It was the first private entreprise camp.

AnswerAuschwitz is the name of a group of German concentration camps and 45 sub-camps. The name is derived from the German name for the nearby Polish town of Oświęcim, situated about 60 kilometres (37 mi) southwest of Krakow. Beginning in 1940, Nazi Germany built several concentration camps and an extermination camp in the area, which at the time had been annexed by Nazi Germany. The camps were a major element in the perpetration of the Holocaust, killing around 1.1-1.5 million people, of whom about 90% were Jews.

The three main camps were:

Auschwitz I served as the administrative center for the whole complex. It was founded on May 20, 1940, on the basis of an old Polish brick army barracks.

Auschwitz II (Birkenau) is the camp that many people know simply as "Auschwitz". It was the site of the imprisonment of hundreds of thousands, and the killings of over one million people, mainly Jews.

The camp is located in Brzezinka (Birkenau), about 3 kilometres (1.8 mi) from Auschwitz I. Construction started in 1941, as part of the Final Solution. The camp was about 2.5 kilometres by 2 kilometres large and was divided into several sections, each of which was separated into fields. Fields as well as the camp itself were surrounded with barbed, electrified wire (which was used by some of the inmates to commit suicide). The camp held up to 100,000 prisoners at one time.

The camp's main purpose, however, was not internment with forced labour (as Auschwitz I & III) but rather extermination. For this purpose, the camp was equipped with four crematoria with gas chambers; each gas chamber was designed to hold up to 2,500 people at one time. Large-scale extermination started in Spring 1942.

Auschwitz III and satellite camps

The surrounding satellite camps were closely connected to German industry and were associated with arms factories, foundries and mines. The largest work camp was Auschwitz III Monowitz, named after the Polish village of Monowice. Starting operations in May 1942, it was associated with the synthetic rubber and liquid fuel plant Buna-Werke owned by IG Farben. In regular intervals, doctors from Auschwitz II would visit the work camps and select the weak and sick for the gas chambers of Birkenau. The largest subcamps were built at Trzebinia, Blechammer and Althammer. Female subcamps were constructed at Budy, Plawy, Zabrze, Gleiwitz I, II, III, Rajsko and at Lichtenwerden.

[Source: Wikipedia article on Auschwitz]
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Answer 2

It was built as a barracks by the newly reformed Polish Army after the Great War.

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The brick buildings are older. They were built c. 1900 for the Austro-Hungarian army in a pseudo-Alpine style.

Answer 3

There were actually two main, large camps in Auschwitz. The first and original one, Auschwitz I, was built long before WWII, it served as barracks for Polish officers. Auschwitz-Birkenau, though, was constructed specially by the Nazis from October 1941, and it was made operational from March 1942.

Answer 4

Auschwitz was a Polish army base. It was turned into a harsch concentration camp in May 1940, initially mainly for Poles. In 1942 the notorious extermination camp was added.

Answer 5

Auschwitz was Operating from May 20th 1940 and Lasted until it was Liberate by the Soviet 322nd Rifle Division of the Red Army on January 27th 1945.

Answer 6

Auschwitz III aka Monowitz was built and was in Operation on Early October 1942 (Some guesses between October 6th-October 15th).

Answer 7

Auschwitz started on Wednesday 22ND May 1940