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Auschwitz concentration camps
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The Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp built with several gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp created to staff a factory for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' Final Solution to the Jewish Question.
Facts
Background
Growth
First mass transport
Crematorium I, first gassings
First mass transport of Jews
Construction
Crematoria II–V
Auschwitz III-Monowitz
Subcamps
SS garrison
Functionaries and ''Sonderkommando''
Tattoos and triangles
Life for the inmates
Women's camp
Medical experiments, block 10
Punishment, block 11
Death wall
Gypsy family camp
Theresienstadt family camp
Gas chambers
Selection
Inside the crematoria
Use of corpses
Death toll
Camp resistance, flow of information
Escapes, ''Auschwitz Protocols''
Bombing proposal
''Sonderkommando'' revolt
Evacuation and death marches
Liberation
Trials of war criminals
Legacy
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum