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Auschwitz
Auschwitz was a Nazi controlled concentration, extermination and labor camp located in Poland. Opened in 1940, the camp was liberated in 1945 by Soviet troops. Questions and answers about Auschwitz can be found here.
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Why did the Jews go to Auschwitz?
Auschwitz was Nazi Germany's largest concentration camp and extermination camp. The total number of people who were murdered at Auschwitz is estimated at between 1.1 million and 1.5 million, 90% of which were Jews. Auschwitz is a reminder to mankind of what hatred, prejudice, racism, and specifically antisemitism, can cause.
'How many people died in the Auschwitz gas chambers' was the original question and the answer is apporx 1,500,000. It is not the same as the current question - to which the answer is 'not all identities are known' and to list the known names would be a list of over a million and not practical. I suggest a visit to various Holocaust memorial web site.
What is the name of the poisonous gas used to kill Jews at Auschwitz?
I may be incorrect, but I believe it was called Zyklon B, a very lethal nerve gas.
Of course, I may be wrong.
Zyklon B was the most well known gas used for the Holocaust. However, most Jews were executed with carbon monoxide poisoning from truck exhaust because the Nazis had supply problems with Zyklon B.
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The poison was hydrogen cyanide. Zyklon B was the base.
When the Jews were sent to Auschwitz what happened to them when they got there?
In the concentration camps the Nazis took the little Jewish, Gypsy and Polish children and threw them up into the air and shot them as target practice. There were camps called: Auschwitz, Buna, Birkenau. The sick people were not given any food to eat or water to drink because they were close to death and the Nazis believed that even if they gave them food, they would still die. Hope That Helps!:)
What happened to people that got sent there?
The people would get beat and killed but most of all they would starve would be very very skinny and unusually pale, the Nazi also starved the women on purpose to stop their menstrual cycle so that they would be as low matnence as the men
What was the auchwitz-birkenau?
It was the expansion camp, it was where most of the inmates were held, it was also the location for most of the gas chambers.
Why is Auschwitz called the gate to hell?
Because of the horror of the Holocaust which occurred there... perhaps as well as the inscription on the gates: "Arbeit macht frei"
*****The inscription on the gate to Auschwitz is like that of many other camps. "Arbeit macht frei" is a German phrase meaning "labour makes (you) free". The slogan is known for having been placed over the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps during World War II, including most infamously Auschwitz I, where it was made by prisoners with metalwork skills and erected by order of the Nazis in June 1940. (Taken from Wikipedia)*****
What does a barbed wire tattoo symbolize?
1990.
Connotations of suffering, confinement, and capture because of the use of barbed and razor wire in concentration camps
Why do intruders not simply cut barbed wire fences to get in?
Barbed wire isn't made to keep intruders like people out. Its mainly designed to keep livestock in. If an intruder wanted to bypass the wire, he could just lift up on a strand and step through.
(clarification from original asker:) While this maybe true when used in a ranching framework, barbed wire is certainly used for national borders in some places, buildings, and other non-rural areas. Sometimes, it may be electrified. But when it's not, it seems that it'd be fairly easy to use an easy-to-buy-and-carry wire cutter.
When did Himmler visit Auschwitz for the first time and what did he ordered to happen?
Heinrich Himmler, Reichsführer -SS, came to Auschwitz for the first time on 1 March 1941.
After a thorough inspection of the camp and the surrounding terrain, Himmler ordered Höss to undertake the following:
-Extend the camp at Auschwitz until it was able to accommodate 30,000 prisoners.
-Build a camp for 100,000 prisoners of war near the village of Brzezinka .
-Supply IG Farben with 10,000 prisoners to build an industrial plant at Dwory.
-Prepare the entire area for farming purposes.
-Build camp workshops for handicraft purposes.
-Indicatelarge armament plants should be built near the camp.
-Build an settlement for SS men.
What is the distance between Frankfurt Germany and Warsaw Poland?
The distance is straight path from one place to another place. There might be slight difference between the actual distance and the above mentioned distance because of the route chosen.The distance between the above mentioned places is 554.00 miles approximately.
POW (plural POWs) is a widely used abbreviation for prisoner-of-war. There are strict rules in international law protecting them against inhuman and/or degrading treatment.
How many people were alive at the end of the Holocaust?
There are various definitions of Holocaust survivor. On the most stringent definition, about 150,000 survived. This means Jews who were in real danger and/or in camps and/or in hiding and still alive on 8 May 1945.
What happened to the women in Auschwitz?
Killed if unfit to work but if they were fit to work, they would be sent to female concentration camp in auschwitz
Why was Auschwitz turned into a museum?
People tend to forget history by the pass of time. It was important to keep it as a museum so the people don't forget about this genocide.
We have nothing to fear from the future, except as we shall forget the way the Lord has led us, and what they taught us in our past history.
-Life Sketches of Ellen G White, page 216-
What POW camps did the US run in the Pacific?
POW camps for the Japanese, but NOT in the Pacific. In the United States itself were POW camps held. They were for the Japanese whom were deemed spies for the Japanese government.
Why did they put the words work will make you free on the entrance to Auschwitz death camp?
The phrase was taken from Dachau, where it was on the gates. The first kommandant of Auschwitz had served in Dachau previously and thought that it was an appropriate motto.
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The motto was used at all major Nazi concentration camps except Buchenwald. Before the Nazis came to power 'Arbeit macht frei' had been the slogan of the public works programme in the Weimar Republic but it is older than that, going back at least to the 1870s. Previously it had meant something like 'Work [employment] is the key to freedom [emancipation]' but obviously the SS used it as a sick joke.
Are polish people Asian in origin?
No, they live in Europe from ages.
Yes, they can be asian as well as no because they arent british
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How many Jews did the first commander estimate to have killed at Auschwitz?
The 1st Camp Commander of Auschwitz was Rudolf Hoss
Here's a quote from his statements about the death tolol at Auschwitz
"I commanded Auschwitz until 1 December 1943, and estimate that at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminated there by gassing and burning, and at least another half million succumbed to starvation and disease, making a total dead of about 3,000,000. This figure represents about 70% or 80% of all persons sent to Auschwitz as prisoners, the remainder having been selected and used for slave labor in the concentration camp industries. Included among the executed and burnt were approximately 20,000 Russian prisoners of war (previously screened out of Prisoner of War cages by the Gestapo) who were delivered at Auschwitz in Wehrmacht transports operated by regular Wehrmacht officers and men. The remainder of the total number of victims included about 100,000 German Jews, and great numbers of citizens (mostly Jewish) from Holland, France, Belgium, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Greece, or other countries. We executed about 400,000 Hungarian Jews alone at Auschwitz in the summer of 1944"
Source:Wikipedia (See related Link)
How many people were killed at Auschwiz?
two thirds of 9 million people were killed in the holocaust in 1941.
