Auschwitz-Birkenau Konzentrationslager
My best friend loves to visit places related to WWI and WWII. He wants us to go to Auschwitz but I do not think I can go there, it is very said, some said that even birds don't sing there. I know that first Concentration Camp of the Nazi Germany was in Dachau but the most ugly and famous was Auschwitz inaugurated in 1940 and then, with the inmates they built a new one, Auschwitz II or Birkenau. Auschwitz II–Birkenau was designated by the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Germany's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the "final solution of the Jewish question in Europe". There is also Auschwitz III–Monowitz, also known as Buna–Monowitz (a labor camp); and 45 satellite camps.
What can I tell about that place... maybe numbers, ugly numbers: killed 1.1 million as is estimated (mainly Jews, Poles, Roma); open in 1940 and eliberated in 1945. The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there (2.5 million gassed, and 500,000 from disease and starvation).
German doctors performed a wide variety of experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. SS doctors tested the efficacy of X-rays as a sterilization device by administering large doses to female prisoners. Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg injected chemicals into women's uteruses in an effort to glue them shut. Bayer, then a subsidiary of IG Farben, bought prisoners to use for testing new drugs. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death", researched on identical twins. He also took a special interest in dwarfs.
By 1943, resistance organizations had developed in the camp. These organizations helped a few prisoners escape; these escapees took with them news of exterminations, such as the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jews transported from Hungary between May and July 1944.
The iron gates are crowned with the infamous motto, "Arbeit macht frei" literally "work makes (one) free," meaning "work sets you free" or "work liberates".
The museum has more than 30 million visitors since its opening after the war.
From 1979 it is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Maybe some of you visited concentration camps and share their impressions.
50.035833,19.178333 Click for Google Maps or use numbers on your GPS to navigate.My best friend loves to visit places related to WWI and WWII. He wants us to go to Auschwitz but I do not think I can go there, it is very said, some said that even birds don't sing there. I know that first Concentration Camp of the Nazi Germany was in Dachau but the most ugly and famous was Auschwitz inaugurated in 1940 and then, with the inmates they built a new one, Auschwitz II or Birkenau. Auschwitz II–Birkenau was designated by the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, Germany's Minister of the Interior, as the place of the "final solution of the Jewish question in Europe". There is also Auschwitz III–Monowitz, also known as Buna–Monowitz (a labor camp); and 45 satellite camps.
What can I tell about that place... maybe numbers, ugly numbers: killed 1.1 million as is estimated (mainly Jews, Poles, Roma); open in 1940 and eliberated in 1945. The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there (2.5 million gassed, and 500,000 from disease and starvation).
German doctors performed a wide variety of experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz. SS doctors tested the efficacy of X-rays as a sterilization device by administering large doses to female prisoners. Prof. Dr. Carl Clauberg injected chemicals into women's uteruses in an effort to glue them shut. Bayer, then a subsidiary of IG Farben, bought prisoners to use for testing new drugs. Josef Mengele, known as the "Angel of Death", researched on identical twins. He also took a special interest in dwarfs.
By 1943, resistance organizations had developed in the camp. These organizations helped a few prisoners escape; these escapees took with them news of exterminations, such as the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jews transported from Hungary between May and July 1944.
The iron gates are crowned with the infamous motto, "Arbeit macht frei" literally "work makes (one) free," meaning "work sets you free" or "work liberates".
The museum has more than 30 million visitors since its opening after the war.
From 1979 it is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Maybe some of you visited concentration camps and share their impressions.
Wikipedia For more information, links, pictures and many more Wikipedia is the perfect site to be informed.
Official Site For visiting information (like fees and open days and times) use the official site.
Poland For travel information, the official site of the National Tourist Board, is the perfect location.
Poland For travel information, the official site of the National Tourist Board, is the perfect location.
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