AUSCHWITZ-Birkenau?!?

Question

was aushwitz-birkenau an extermination camp?

Answer 1

Yes, it was one of the main extermination camps.
Auschwitz-Birkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of European Jews were killed. After an experimental gassing there in September 1941 of 850 malnourished and ill prisoners, mass murder became a daily routine. By mid 1942, mass gassing of Jews using Zyklon-B began at Auschwitz, where extermination was conducted on an industrial scale with some estimates running as high as three million persons eventually killed through gassing, starvation, disease, shooting, and burning ...

Answer 2

Yep. Auschwitz-Birkenau was in fact the largest Nazi "extermination" camp under the direction of Hindrik Himmler. It was located in southern Poland. It was really just a slaughter house, at the end of the war it was said that around 2.5 million people were murdered here, maybe more.

Answer 3

Auschwitz was an extermination camp. Birkenau was the work camp

Answer 4

The majority of the Jewish men, women and children deported to Auschwitz were sent to their deaths in the Birkenau gas chambers immediately after arrival.

Answer 5

international huge, Auschwitz has grow to be an emblem of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It grow to be prevalent via Germans in 1940. The direct clarification for the employer of the camp grow to be the actual shown fact that mass arrests of Poles have been increasing previous the flexibility of contemporary "interior sight" prisons. initially, Auschwitz grow to be to be one greater concentration camp of the type that the Nazis have been setting up because of the fact the early Nineteen Thirties. It functioned in this place for the time of its existence, even while, beginning up in 1942, it additionally grew to become the main important of the dying camps. Auschwitz Birkenau: branch of the camp the 1st and oldest grow to be the so-stated as "important camp," later additionally common as "Auschwitz I" (the type of prisoners fluctuated around 15,000, sometimes increasing above 20,000), which grow to be prevalent on the grounds and interior the homes of prewar Polish barracks. It grow to be prevalent via Germans in 1940, interior the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that grow to be annexed to the 0.33 Reich via the Nazis. Its call grow to get replaced to Auschwitz, which additionally grew to become the call of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz. the 2d section grow to be the Birkenau camp (which held over ninety,000 prisoners in 1944), additionally common as "Auschwitz II" This grow to be the main important portion of the Auschwitz complicated. The Nazis began construction it in 1941 on the positioning of the village of Brzezinka, 3 kilometers from Oswiecim. The Polish civilian inhabitants grow to be evicted and their residences confiscated and demolished. The better portion of the equipment of mass extermination grow to be in-built Birkenau and maximum folk of the victims have been murdered here; better than 40 sub-camps, exploiting the prisoners as slave human beings, have been based, specifically at dissimilar forms of German business flora and farms, between 1942 and 1944. the main important of them grow to be stated as Buna (Monowitz, with 10000 prisoners) and grow to be opened via the camp administration in 1942 on the grounds of the Buna-Werke synthetic rubber and gasoline plant six kilometers from the Auschwitz camp. On November 1943, the Buna sub-camp grew to become the seat of the commandant of the 0.33 portion of the camp, Auschwitz III, to which another Auschwitz sub-camps have been subordinated

Answer 6

Yes. But the inmates got to play kickball on Sundays, so it wasn't as bad as some of the other ones.