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to put more jews in there cuz the other camps where already filled up

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Auschwitz opened in May 1940 as a harsh concentration camp for:

  • Members of the Polish resistance.
  • Polish intellectuals.
  • Habitual criminal (mainly from Germany).

A handful of these early inmates were even released ...

Auschwitz did not become a Nazi extermination centre till 1942.

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