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Auschwitz

was selected to be the site of the first concentration camp in occupied Poland because of its central location near a major railroad junction and because there was already a military camp there with usable buildings. " The former kilometers from Cracow". (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at//HTML/Allgem-Infos.html) This location was favorably situated as reguards to transport facilities. This location was also large to the SS. The concentration camp complex was the first in Poland. was the largest out of all the nazi Camps. They choose former Austrian imperial barracks for the site of a concentration camp. This was the concentration camp that most attracted the attention of the allies. The ...

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the rest of the world in their plans and ideas to produce artifical rubber. - (www.scrapbookpages.com/Poland//02.html) & (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at//HTML/Allgem-Infos.html)
had 405,000 prisoners recorded through executions, beatings, starvation, and sickness.The camp was staffed partly by prisoners, some of which were selected to be Kapos and Sonderkommandos. Some of the prisoners survived through the help of some others. Of the 405,000 registrere at the complex, 65,00 survived. Out of the 16,000 soviet POW's only 96 survived. From various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered. (www.members.dencity.com/lukeworld//AUSmain.htm)
" The Nazis established in April 1940 under the direction of Heinrick Himmer chief of two Nazi organzations- the Nazi guards known as the Schutzstaffel (SS), the secret police known as the Gestapo. The camp at originally housed political prisoners from occupied Poland and from concentration camps within Germany". ...

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Added: 6/13/2007 05:26:46 PM
Category: World History
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