Question

What was Auschwitz famous for?

Answer 1

Hint: Auschwitz I used to be the main headquarters of the camp complex in the First World War, it was later used as barracks for the Polish army. Auschwitz began as a detention camp for prisoners of the war and was based in southern Poland. Later it was also used in Germany under the Nazi regime.

Complete answer:
- Auschwitz Birkenau was the one most famous and well-known among the six extermination as well as concentration camps set up by Nazi Germany to carry out its 'Final Solution' strategy, which aimed to exterminate all Jews who lived in Europe.
- It was originally built as a detention camp for the Polish and later for Soviet war prisoners, under Nazi German occupation, but it quickly had become a dungeon for a variety of ethnicities. However, after Hitler's 'Final Solution' became the Nazi's official policy, Auschwitz was seen as the perfect location for a death camp.
- Following the invasion of Germans into the Soviet Union in June of 1941, they launched a wave of mass killings targeted at entire Jewish populations. By mid-1942, the bulk of those sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis were Jewish. Detainees were evaluated by Nazi physicians as soon as they arrived at the camp.
- Detainees that were deemed unfit for duty, such as small children, the sick, pregnant mothers, and others were told to shower right away. However, the bathrooms to which they marched were actually gas chambers known as bathhouses. The inmates were subjected to Zyklon-B gas that was poisonous while they were inside.
- Overwork, illness, improper health management, or the constant fight for life in brutal living conditions killed an unknown number of those who originally survived the gas chambers. In view of the other inmates, unlawful executions, abuse, and vengeance were carried out on a regular basis.
- As part of the "Final Solution," Nazi officials planned to murder 11 million Jews. They were successful in killing 6 million people.
- Therefore during Nazi Germany, Auschwitz was very famous as the center of genocide. Through World War II and the Holocaust, the Auschwitz death camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps run by Nazi Germany.

Note: Ever since liberation of prisoners from concentration camps in the January of 1945, the Auschwitz camp complex has remained mostly unchanged. The camp's construction was mainly made up of pre-existing structures that the Nazis reconfigured for new purposes. The surviving camp facilities, infrastructure, and houses are passive witnesses to historical happenings.