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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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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"
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How many people were killed at Auschwiz?
two thirds of 9 million people were killed in the holocaust in 1941.
How many Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz?
437,685 Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Al of the Hungarian Jews were deported to Auschwitz between May 1944 - July 1944.
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In an effort to make it a bit clearer:
The Hungarian action took place over three months, as this action was late into the war Eichmann was very efficient at extracting Jews from the general population (they were not put into ghettos in Hungary).
The exact number varies because the borders/boundaries varied over the war and some data is from the original boundaries and others from later boudaries.
It is safest to say abour 450 000 were deported, some went straight to labour/concentration camps, but most went to Auschwitz and most of these were killied within a day of arriving.
Which camp served as the administrative center for the whole of the Auschwitz complex?
In the case of Auschwitz, the original camp - Auschwitz I - was the administrative centre of the whole complex of camps, though for a few months Auschwitz II was virtually independent.
What is the purpose of a pow camp?
POW is the abbreviation of "Prisoners Of War". Its purpose is to hold the former combatants.
Who was the leader of the Auschwitz medical experiments?
The Doctor in Chief of ALL Nazi medical experiments was Dr. Eduard Wirths, who directed most of the experiment done to the prisoners in the concentrations camps during the nazi regime. the most infamous doctor at Auschwitz was Dr. Josef Mengele
Birkenau was the new camp.
They would get there by foot. At the time that they would travel from one to the other, it would be during the construction phase, ie. when they were still building brick buildings and the railway line would not go all of the way into Birkenau, it would still be uninhabitted. Their first impression would be that it was boring, there would have been a large field with some buildings on it and a tree line in the distance.
How far from civilization was Auschwitz?
it was civilization, Auschwitz was modernised murder, no hordes of barbarians there, just calm, organised, civilized murder.
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There's rather more to civilization than technology.
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Auschwitz was not located in some remote, dense forest. The main site covered a large area by 1942; it was about 3-4 miles from the town of Auschwitz in a fairly heavily populated part of southern Poland, and parts of it were quite close to the main railway station. (Auschwitz is a major rail junction). The site was surrounded by electrified barbed wire and an 'exclusion' zone of about 300-400 yards: civilians entering this zone could be shot.
The phrase "ran out of" means there's not any more of that item, whever the case may be. The phrase is used frequently in stores, in regarding to supplies "running out" . Oftentimes, the phrase "while supplies last" is used due to the small amount of that item that the stores owns.
He didn't do it personally but he did order it to be set up.
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There is no evidence to suggest the Hitler knew or cared about the existence of Auschwitz, he did not micro-manage the Holocaust, all he cared about was that his territories were being made 'Jew-free'.
It was established by Hoess on Himmler's orders.
Why was it significant that in Night no one on the train had ever heard of Auschwitz?
Auschwitz did not become widely known as a group of camps till about June 1944. It did not acquire today's associations till later.
