Auschwitz

From early 1942 onwards, there were three camps on the main site at Auschwitz and the number of sub-camps (off the main site) grew to 45. The main site included the extermination camp at Birkenau (Auschwitz II).

In the early stages of the Counter Reformation (Council of Trent, 1545-63) there was a renewed wave of persecution, mainly in some Roman Catholic regions, especially in the City of Rome itself.

The conditions were horrible. The prisoners were fed very little. they would work people very hard and in the end all of them would be killed. A lot of the time when the women amd chilldren arrived they were automatically killed because they didnt think that they could live up to the work standards. The conditions were horrible. The prisoners were fed very little. they would work people very hard and in the end all of them would be killed. A lot of the time when the women amd chilldren arrived they were automatically killed because they didnt think that they could live up to the work standards.

If you mean after the gas chambers they had the bodies taken through to an incinerating room that had a couple of large incinerators The ovens Inside the crematoria were Banksof ovrns, each large enough to accommodate a human body. The fires were kept stoked up day and nightas body after bodywas loaded in and terned to ashes.

The three camps made up Auschwitz I, II, and III


Aushwitz 1 - was mainly a prisoner of war camp
Aushwitz 2 or Birkenau - functioned as an extermination camp for Jews.
Aushwitz 3 - was a work camp

The concentration camp and extermination camp were well outside the town and surrounded by an exclusion zone.

Also because if they did, they would probably be captured and sent to the camp as well as the person they tried to save. Not to mention when they got captured, they probably would have been whipped.

Very little, if anything. A prisoners diet usually consisted of a watered-down soup or some stale bread, maybe once or twice a week. Sometimes no food was given until a large task was accomplished.

Block No. 11 was known by the prisoners [of Auschwitz] as "the death block." It filled several roles, of which the most important was that of central camp jail. Here, the SS placed male and female prisoners from all over the camp who were suspected by the camp Gestapo of belonging to the underground, planning escapes or mutinies, or maintaining contact with the outside world. Poles from outside the camp were also held here after being arrested for such offenses as offering aid to prisoners. They were subjected to brutal interrogation that usually ended in a sentence of death by being shot or hanged.

In the first years of the camp, the penal company (Strafkompanie) and corrective company (Erziehungskompanie), assigned to the harshest labor, were quartered here. Almost all newly arrived Jewish prisoners and Polish priests were initially placed in the penal company, where the number of victims was highest. The special group of prisoners assigned to burn corpses in the crematorium (Sonderkommando) was temporarily quartered in this block.

So-called police prisoners (Polizeihäftlinge) were imprisoned here after 1943. These were Poles, suspected of resistance activity and held at the disposition of the Katowice Judicial District Gestapo. They waited in this block for the verdict of the German summary court, which usually sentenced them to death.

The SS incarcerated prisoners guilty of violating the camp regulations in the punishment cells located in the basement. Prisoners sentenced to death by starvation were also placed here in 1941. Among those who died in cell no. 18 in the basement of this block was St. Maksymilian Maria Kolbe.

In connection with SS operational plans for beginning the total extermination of the Jews, a trial of the use of Zyklon B gas for mass killing was carried out in the basement on September 3-5, 1941. In this test, 600 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 Polish patients selected from the camp "hospital" were murdered.

From 1941-1943, the SS shot several thousand people at the Death Wall in the courtyard between Blocks No. 10 and 11. Those who died here were mostly Polish political prisoners, and above all leaders and members of the underground organization, people involved in planning escapes and aiding escapers, and those maintaining contacts with the outside world. Poles brought from outside the camp were also shot here. They included hostages arrested in reprisal for Polish resistance movement operations against the German occupation authorities.

Men, women, and even children died here. Cases are also known in which prisoners of other nationalities were shot here: Jews and Soviet prisoners of war. The SS administered floggings in the courtyard, as well as the punishment known as "the post," in which prisoners were hung by their wrists, which were twisted behind their backs. The Death Wall was dismantled in 1944 on orders from the camp authorities, and the SS carried out most executions by shooting in the gas chambers and crematoria of Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

The Museum reconstructed the Death Wall after the war.

Dachau Concentration Camp was owned at first by the State of Bavaria. When the German states were abolished in 1934, ownership passed to the Reich. The camp was initially run by the SA (Stormtroopers, Brownshirts), then from 1934-45 by the SS. == ==

Most people were poor during the 1930's because of the worldwide depression, so they ate cheap food. Families (at least in Berlin) commonly ate Eintopf, a bean soup, every day.

From early 1942 Auschwitz operated as both. The only other camp that served as both a concentration camp and extermination camp was Majdanek.

They went to Buchenwald.

The first gassings of prisoners occur in Auschwitz I on Wednesday 3rd September 1941. The SS tests Zyklon B gas by killing 850 people, Mainly soviet POWs and people who were weak and ill. Testing takes place in a gas chamber in the cellar of Block 11 in Auschwitz I. The success of these experiments leads to the adoption of Zyklon B as the killing agent for Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

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However, those early gassing were experimental. Auschwitz did not become a routine gassing centre till well into 1942, after Treblinka and Belzec.

January 27, 1945. Auschwitz III (Monowitz) was freed in the morning, and Auschwitz II (Birkenau) and I (the main camp) early in the afternoon. The Soviet troops were greeted by inmates who looked like walking skeletons. They needed medical attention before they could go anywhere or do much.

The purpose of Auschwitz was to rid of the Jews.

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Auschwitz was originally established in May 1940 as a very harsh concentration camp for Polish intellectuals, members of the Polish resistance and habitual German criminals. Until 1942 there were very few Jews there: the camp changed function ... See the related question for more information.

* Auschwitz opened as a harsh concentration camp in May 1940. * 3 September 1941 - First experimental gassings (Auschwitz I) * October 1941 on - Camp greatly expanded. * March 1942 - First mass gassings (Auschwitz II) * 27 January 1945 - Auschwitz I, II and III liberated by the Soviet Army

If "Victorian" means "English": not that many. England had child labour laws since 1833, so since well before the Victorian era, limiting the kinds of work and the number of hours that children could do.

He didnt do anyhin bd it was just he had to be taken away is all. ___ He was taken from his home town, Sighet, on 16 May 1944 and transported to Auschwitz.

The punishment of the press for publishing new articles dealing with judicial proceedings. Ordinarily, the First Amendment prohibits such punishment. However, the Supreme Court ruled that unless a compelling state interest or a serious threat to the administration of justice is proven to be the reason for punishment of the press then it is unconstitutional.

Birkenau was a reception center for Auschwitz.

Well their was never an exact same number of people dying at Auschwitz daily.

There were days when no one was killed, Auschwitz was in existance for over a year before mass killings started, and there were days where 30 000 died.

The "final solution" (extermination of all Jews within German-occupied territories) was outlined at the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942. The conference was called by Reinhard Heydrich at the behest of Reich Marshal Hermann Goring, who was acting on behalf of Adolf Hitler. Heydrich was charged with creating and implementing the deportation, imprisonment, and execution of the Jewish populations. Present at the meeting was Adolf Eichmann, who took over Operation Reinhard after Heydrich was assassinated in Prague on June 4.