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Auschwitz-concentration Camp

Auschwitz, located in Poland, was Nazi Germany's largest and most terrible
concentration camp. It was established by order of Himmler on April 27, 1940.
At first, it was small because it was a work camp for Polish and Soviet
prisoners of war. It became a death camp in 1941. Auschwitz was divided into
three areas: Auschwitz was the camp commander's headquarters and administrative
offices. Auschwitz was called Birkenau and it was the death camp with forty
gas chambers. Auschwitz was a slave labor camp (Funk and Wagnalls New
encyclopedia). On the gate of Auschwitz was a sign in German which read,
'Arbeit macht frei', which means work makes you free. Auschwitz included camp
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they would be assured that things
would get better (MicrosoftEncarta).
The daily meals in Auschwitz consisted of watery soup, distributed once
a day, with a small piece of bread. In addition, they got extra allowance
consisting of 3/4 ounce of margarine, a little piece of cheese or a spoonful of
watered jam (Internet: Auschwitz Alphabet). Everyone in the camp was so
malnourished that if a drop of soup spilled prisoners would rush from all sides
to see if they could get some of the soup. Because of the bad sanitary
conditions, the inadequate diet, the hard labor and other torturous
conditions in Auschwitz, most people died after a few months of their arrival.
The few people who managed to stay alive for longer were the ones who were
assigned better jobs (Gilbert “The Holocaust”).
The prisoners slept on three shelves of wooden slabs with six of these
units to each tier. They had to stand for hours in the wet and mud during role
call, which was twice a day. ...

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