The Yellow Star of David. The gay community was required to wear pink triangles and the communist red triangles.

Many German Jews were sent to Auschwitz. Others were slaughtered in Belarus and the killing fields of Latvia.

Most residents of the town were not involved in the holocaust. Obviously, the Jewish inhabitants were taken to the camp and killed. The camp itself (or rather, complex of camps) was surrounded by an exclusion zone.

World War II

Anyone who was considered 'inferior' to the master race - the Aryans, that is. These people included:

-Anyone with ties to Judaism

-Gypsies

-Bible Students (now called Jehovah's Witnesses)

-Mentally and physically disabled persons

-Communists

-Enemy soldiers

-Political enemies (anyone who opposed Nazism)

Dachau and Auschwitz were two well-known concentration camps of the many that Nazi Germany opened. Dachau was ostensibly a detention camp for dissenters and "political prisoners", but many, many people died there. Auschwitz was an outright death camp, where people were sent to be killed by "annihilation by work", or by being sent directly to the gas chambers.

How Auschwitz operated was it was in two camps. And in that one was working digging holes and other hard labor. Then the other was a death camp.

Even though they survived the Nazi Death Machine, it would continue to get worse. They would return to their homes and families, without realizing both would in most cases be gone. Some would starve to death or just waste away after the horrors they had witnessed , but some had friends or family left and would try to make the best out of their predicament.

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In many cases what the survivors had to endure after the Holocaust was worse. In the camps they knew that they had no hope, they just tried to live until the next day, upon liberation they were full of hope, but they found that they could not return home, in the east under communism their property had been reasigned to someone else, in most areas antisemitism had not suddenly stopped just because the government had changed. Communites were often ashamed of what they had done, but blamed the Jews for making them do it, and they did not want the Jews around to remind them. But in other places like some towns in Hungary and Greece gentile friends had protected Jewish property and businesses and there was a peaceful return.

Medical care was a problem during World War I. (For one thing, antibiotics didn't even exist yet.)

due to all of the mud in the trenches, gangrene was very common. Many solders had feet amputated because of the infections.

But that isn't all, because during attacks, if your regiment was pulling back and you were injured, it is likely that you would be left behind in No Man's Land. If you were left behind, death was a certainty. No one is going to come help you and either you die from your wound or you die from starvation.hi

In November of 1944, in the face of the approaching allied Red Army, Himmler ordered gassings to stop and for a "clean-up" operation to be put in place in order to conceal traces of the mass murder and other crimes that they had committed. The Nazi's destroyed documents and dismantled, burned down or blew up the vast majority of buildings.

The orders for the final evacuation and liquidation of the camp were issued in mid-January 1945. The Germans left behind in the main Auschwitz camp, Birkenau and in Monowitz about 7,000 sick or incapacitated who they did not expect would live for long; the rest, approximately 58,000 people, were evacuated by foot into the depths of the Third Reich.

SS guards, these 58,000 men and women prisoners were led out of Auschwitz from January 17-21. Many prisoners lost their lives during this tragic evacuation, known as the "Death March."

Zyklon B was the poison used in the Auschwitz gas chambers.

It's estimated that 1.6 million people died at Auschwitz.

I have read this book and found it wonderful but terrible. Seeing his father die was unforgettable. How could he have let the SS beat his father? The sadness and regret he felt was terrible. That had struck me the hardest, so hard that i cried my eyes out. His father and seeing him suffer was bad too. How he and his family were separated at Auswitz had scarred him for life. Seeing the black smoke and the babies...so terrible. How sad it was to read. How death was everywhere was bad. See my message board you can piost more questions there. -Round Rupert

4. 1000 per barrack.

The shortest route by road from Amsterdam to Auschwitz is 448 miles (721km).

There were a total of 1.1 million deaths at Auschwitz. The barracks at the camp were designed to keep around 150,000 inmates at any one moment. Overall, a minimum of 1.3 million people were sentenced to Auschwitz, this includes the number dead and a full camp. However, during it's time, some prisoners did escape or was moved to other camps, so that will effect the number of deaths.

Buna is a work camp mainly and it is also in Auschwitz as well as the main Auschwitz camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau, the death camp.

It's quite agreed that about 270,000 Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 1943. However numerouse people do say the exact figure is 270,342 Jews were deported to Auschwitz in 1943.

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This very low figure needs a source.

There are actually two prison camps- Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz Birkenau.

Auschwitz 1 was formally a soldier barracks, and so looks mildly 'normal' it has rows of houses, streets etc but with walls, barbed wire and towers. However, there is a gas chamber there which is rather horrific.

Auschwitz Birkenau was the larger, purpose built camp- it is unbelievably massive. You enter through the main gates and their are literally sheds as far as the eye can see. Blown up gas chambers at the end from where the Germans attempted to hide the evidence.

There was at one time a custom of making prisoners wear striped clothing so that if they were to escape the prison, they could be more easily identified as escaped prisoners (at least until such time as they had a chance to get some new clothing). Even though inmates of concentration camps had not committed any crime and had not been convicted of anything, they were still prisoners, and so this was done it make it harder for them to successfully escape.

Some were forced to work and as long as they were able to perform their jobs they lived. Others were just lucky enough to not have their numbers called. NAZI's were killing as fast as they could but it took time and the unlucky ones were murdered before the Allies were able to stop the killing. Most of the ones who survived were just lucky. A very small number of Jews were used for office work in some camps - jobs such as sorting and listing valuables seized from new arrivals. Although they were fed miserable rations, the work was less strenuous than, for example, quarrying. Also those sent to the camps very late in the war stood a better chance of survival than others, provided they were 'selected' for work and not sent straight to the gas chambers. Psychological resilience may have helped some. However, as already stated, even these prisoners needed good luck. No amount of resilience could help against the outbreaks of disease that swept through many of the camps.

In November of 1944, in the face of the approaching allied Red Army, Himmler ordered gassings to stop and for a "clean-up" operation to be put in place in order to conceal traces of the mass murder and other crimes that they had committed. The Nazi's destroyed documents and dismantled, burned down or blew up the vast majority of buildings.

The orders for the final evacuation and liquidation of the camp were issued in mid-January 1945. The Germans left behind in the main Auschwitz camp, Birkenau and in Monowitz about 7,000 sick or incapacitated who they did not expect would live for long; the rest, approximately 58,000 people, were evacuated by foot into the depths of the Third Reich.

Those prisoners capable, began forcibly marching at the moment when Soviet soldiers were liberating Cracow, some 60 kilometers from the camp. In marching columns escorted by heavily armed SS guards, these 58,000 men and women prisoners were led out of Auschwitz from January 17-21. Many prisoners lost their lives during this tragic evacuation, known as the "Death March."

Auschwitz was a concentration and extermination camp.

It was the largest camp out of all of them.

It was the first camp to have gas chambers.

People that were in Auschwitz were told as they entered that if they worked hard, they would be set free (which was a lie).

The banner going into Auschwitz said "Arbeit Macht Frei", which is German for ' work makes one free'.