Auschwitz
The Nazi camp of Auschwitz, located thirty miles west of Krakow, was the largest, most deadly camp used during World War II (Friedrich 2). Built in 1940, it was the first camp located beyond the frontiers of the Third Reich (Friedrich 4). "According to various estimates, 1,600,000 people were murdered in the killing center..." (Yahil 372). Ninety percent of those who were murdered in Auschwitz were Jewish (Yahil 372).Originally an Austrian artillery barracks, Auschwitz was to be supposed to be built at the intersection of the Sola River and the Vistula. Heinrich Himmler, commander of the Schutzstaffel (the Fuher's private guard), was to lead the building of the camp. Himmler placed SS major Rudolph Hoess in charge of the construction (Friedrich 5).The first people who worked to build the camp of Auschwitz were thirty German criminals, brought there on May 20,1940, by an SS officer named Gerhard Pallitzsch (Friedrich 7). The town council of Oswiecim cooperated with Hoess's orders of rounding up, and enslaving over two hundred Jews to help work on the construction (Friedrich 7). Already, Hoess was receiving letters of when the camp would be ready to accept prisoners. Before he even had time to respond, the first trainload of
No one, not the prisoners, nor those in charge of the camps were prepared for the harsh winter (Adelsberger 49). One form of torture inflicted on the prisoners was where the SS would slowly pull out the prisoners' fingernails with a pair of pliers. Doctor Josef Mengele, known as "the Angel of Death", was most known for his experiments practiced on twins, women, and dwarfs (Gutman 111-112). The sturdy SS man stood in the corner and told thewretched people in a clerical voice: "Nothing at all is going to happen to you! You must deep breath in the chambers. Hoess had to find another way to dispose of the bodies. There were no windows in the barracks, and barely any had heat (Adelsberger 50). The destination of the newcomers to Auschwitz was Bunker number 1, the gas chambers. Those who were not sent to the gas chambers were sent to the part of the camp called the "quarantine. This angered Hoess, causing him to declare that six villages that surrounded the area were now property of Auschwitz (Friedrich 7-8). It was a steel bar, which the prisoner's wrists and ankles were tied to.
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