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Auschwitz Birkenau Research Paper

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Never in history has there been such a brutal, infamous camp. A camp that killed a vast majority of the Jewish religion. Auschwitz-Birkenau, one of the deadliest camps in history ran by a German leader and his troops. The memory of Auschwitz is the most horrific in history. This death camp started in 1940 and operated until 1945, just until the end of WWII. So many innocent people and families were taken away from their home to and be exterminated for no reason. Approximately one thousand of the Poles and Jews homes were destroyed, having the people taken away to camp (KL Auschwitz Birkenau). Jews from almost every country in Europe were transported to Auschwitz by a long and uncomfortable train ride (Auschwitz United States ). Jews were …show more content…

This extermination camp was built and ready to be opened in 1940 by the Germans in the suburbs of Oswiecim. The Nazis had been building this camp since the early 1930s before their opening in 1940 (KL Auschwitz-Birkenau). Of the three Auschwitz camps and of any death camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau was the largest concentration camp created as a detention center by the Nazi Regime (Auschwitz United States ). The commander of Auschwitz was Rudolf Hob, who was sentenced to death and executed in 1947 when Auschwitz was no longer running (Auschwitz …show more content…

Thousands of these Germans had been transferred to Auschwitz from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp (Auschwitz United States). A group of selected guards/protection squad was sent to be in charge of the Auschwitz prisoners and make them do forced labor. This group of select guards was called “Schutzstaffel”, also known as the “SS”. After the long and harsh years of the “SS” torturing and murdering Jews, the Soviet Army came to liberate Auschwitz on January 27, 1945. The Soviet troops who entered Auschwitz freed the survivors and shut down this brutal camp (Auschwitz

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