Auschwitz

Because it contains the place where more people died than any other place on earth.

It means that the population of Germany and Poland knew for the most part about the Holocaust but turned their heads and did nothing to prevent the genocide (paved with indifference)

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It is a metaphor: it means that though the initial work was done by hatred, this was but a small part, it took indifference to create the final product (the Holocaust). It means to say that whilst most of the people did not protest, a minority could do what they wanted.

Auschwitz is used here to mean the Holocaust, not the actual place.

A parallel system to the main camp in Auschwitz began to operate at the Birkenau camp by 1942. The exception, though, was that the majority of "showers" used to delouse the incoming prisoners proved to be gas chambers. At Birkenau, only about 10 percent of Jewish transports were registered, disinfected, shaven and showered in the "central sauna" before being assigned barracks as opposed to being sent directly to the death chambers.

In the spring of 1942, two provisional gas chambers at Birkenau were constructed out of peasant huts, known as the "bunkers. "The first "bunker", with two sealed rooms, operated from January 1942 to the end of that year. The second, with four air tight rooms, became redundant in the spring of 1943, but remained standing and was used again in the autumn of 1944 when extra "capacity" was needed for the murder of Hungarian Jews and the liquidation of the ghettos. The second measured about 1.134 square feet. The victims murdered in the "bunkers" were first obliged to undress in temporary wooden barracks erected nearby. Their bodies were taken out of the gas chambers and pushed to pits where they were burned in the open. Between January 1942 and March 1943, 175,000 Jews were gassed to death here, of whom 105,000 were killed from January to March 1943.

Up to this point, though, Auschwitz-Birkenau accounted for "only" 11 percent of the victims of the 'Final Solution.' In August 1942, however, construction began on four large-scale gassing facilities. It appears from the plans that the first two gas chambers were adapted from mortuaries which, with the huge crematoria attached to them, were initially intended to cope with mortalities amongst the slave labor force in the camp, now approaching 100,000 and subject to a horrifying death rate. But from the autumn of 1942, it seems clear that the SS planners and civilian contractors were intending to build a mass-murder plant.

The twin pairs of gas chambers were numbered II and III, and IV and V. The first opened on March 31, 1943, the last on April 4, 1943. The total area of the gas chambers was 2,255 square meters; the capacity of these crematoria was 4,420 people. Those selected to die were undressed in the undressing room and then pushed into the gas chambers

It only took about 20 minutes for all the people inside to die.

In chambers II and III, the killings took place in underground rooms, and the corpses were carried to the five ovens by an electrically operated lift. Before cremation gold teeth and any other valuables, such as rings, were removed from the corpses. In IV and V the gas chambers and ovens were on the same level, but the ovens were so poorly built and the usage was so great that they repeatedly malfunctioned and had to be abandoned. The corpses were finally burned outside, in the open, as in 1943. Jewish sonderkommandos worked the crematoria under SS supervision. Initially the new facilities were "underutilized." From April 1943 to March 1944, "only" 160,000 Jews were killed at Birkenau.

But, in May 1944, a railroad spur line was built right into the camp to accelerate and simplify the handling of the tens of thousands of Hungarian and other Jews deported in the spring and summer of 1944. From then to November 1944, when all the other death camps had been abandoned, Birkenau surpassed all previous records for mass killing. The Hungarian deportations and the liquidation of the remaining Polish ghettos, such as Lodz, resulted in the gassing of 585,000 Jews. This period made Auschwitz-Birkenau into the most notorious killing site of all time.

If they had a profession they were allowed to work , otherwise they were sent straight to the gas chambers

The distance between Warsaw and Krakow is 293.4 kilometers or 182.31 miles. The driving time from Warsaw to Krakow is 3 hours and 45 minutes.

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17th March 1943

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New cars from the factory are typically taken from the car plant to a rail road by a car hauling truck specifically for vehicles, the rail then ships it to another rail head then the car hauling trucks move them to the dealers. For personally owned vehicle or vehicle already at a dealership you would hire a company to move it for you.

On arrival at Auschwitz the Jews were sorted into two groups.

Those who were 'selected' (chosen) as fit for work were used as slave laborers. The rest were gassed as soon as practical. Kids under 15 (sometimes 14), visibly pregnant women and the elderly were gassed as unfit for work. This was standard procedure.

Those considered fit for work were registered and tattooed with a number and then sent to forced labour sections of the camp, where they had to do heavy manual labour on grossly insufficient food.

Most women, children, and elderly people were told they were going to the "showers" to be cleansed of lice, but, they were gassed and cremated as soon as possible. Healthy adult men and women healthy were worked until they were unable to do any more back breaking slave labor, then they were gassed and cremated, and replaced by new slave labor. A small number of Jews were used for "medical experiments".

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When I attended U of M, '67-'69, at McGraw there were two out the gate to the right, the smaller was Fischer's, the larger I do not remember. The one out of the gate to the left was called the Blue Room. I drank plenty of beer at all. At 25 cents a liter, why not.

Jerry, Baumholder 1967 and U of M Munich 1967-1969

I was there '69-'71. I remember the Blue Room. There was another across the street the other direction which I think we call the Elbow Room. The Blue Room had the best Farmer's Omelets whcch were great way to end all nighter writing papers.

Here's a link to a photo of the Blue Room from around 1970. http://www.flickr.com/photos/orpost/2254180634/

George Brett UMD-Munich 69-71

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the German name for the blue room was "transtiener stubel" and we called the one further down on the left "joe"s bar"

Gary Ferguson 1962- 1963

The Blue Room was Lukulu's gasthaus. David Roberts 30th Army Band 1975-1967. The owner Bobbie let me run a tab.

According to a widely respected article written in 1989 by Franciszek Piper, the Director of the Auschwitz Museum, about 1.3 million prisoners entered the Auschwitz complex of camps, and 200,000 left alive. However, this does not mean that they all survived, as many were transferred to other camps, where they perished. (Anne and Margot Frank are well known examples). Of the 1.1 million victims at Auschwitz, about 90% were Jews. Piper's estimate of the numbers is deliberately cautious, and most serious scholarly debate since 1989 has focused on the range 1.1.-1.5 million.

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It wasn't just in January, since October 1944, the SS began deporting prisoners to other camps, so that they can kill them quicker. It wasn't intill November 25th 1944 when they starting to mass deporting and mass killing as much people as they can because on this day, Himmler orders the destruction of the Auschwitz-Birkenau gas chambers and crematoria. During this attempt to destroy the evidence of mass killings, prisoners are forced to dismantle and dynamite the structures. So then they started sending them onto Death Marches to the west because of the advancing Soviet Red Army.

Auschwitz Concentration Camp in Poland used Zyklon B gas in their gas chambers afterwards creamated the bodies.

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Krematoria I had only two, but the other four combined had about fifty (if memory serves).

Chelmno and Belzec came into operation as an extermination camp a few months before Auschwitz II.

generally it was the SS more than soldiers who were stationed to Auschwitz, but it would have been whilst it was in operation, between 1940 and 1945.

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