Auschwitz

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.

A Knight would usually live with his lord and lady in their estate. If something were to happen the knights were able to act quickly. These warriors were training every day and were always working on their battle techniques. Their living conditions for the time depended on who they were serving. If the lord was wealthy, they would obviously have been taken better care of. For that time period the knights had it pretty good.

Auschwitz was a concentration camp. It's not something one "wins."

They died in a few minutes.

Parts of Auschwitz I and II have been preserved and in part restored and are now a museum and a World Heritage Site. It is visited by tourists and survivors today.
A tourist attraction.

At least 3.5 million people died in Auschwitz.

Auschwits was used by the Nazis as a death and work 'camp' for those that did not fit into their aryan race. Dr Mengele the famous auchwits doctor was based there and even preformed his experimentations there. Many Jews, Gypsys, Russians and many others died there at the fate of the Nazis.

On April 29th 1942, the first of the Slovak Jews arrived at Auschwitz. They were taken to the two gas chambers and murdered. Their bodies were buried in giant pits. This was the start of the mass murders with which Auschwitz is associated - the deliberate and planned murder of, in this case, Slovak Jews.

At Monowitz (Auschwitz III), which was owned by the conglomerate I.-G. Farben and produced polymers, some very basic medical attention was sometimes provided, especially for slave workers that the company had trained. There are a handful of stories of a few prisoners at other private entreprise sub-camps occasionally getting very basic treatment. At Auschwitz I and II there no medical treatment available; on the contrary the SS doctors used prisoners for experiments.

Auschwitz II (also known as Birkenau) was on the main site, about 1.5 miles from Auschwitz I. Please see the related question.