Aushwitz was the largest concentration camp built by the Nazis which included three main camps. The camps were located approximately 37 miles west of Krakow, near the prewar German-Polish border in Upper Silesia, an area that Nazi Germany annexed in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland. Aushwitz I was the main camp established near Oswiecim. Construction began in May 1940 in an abandoned Polish army artillery barracks. The SS authorities continuously deployed prisoners at forced labor to expand the physical contours of the camp. Aushwitz II was the largest in total population of its prisoners. It was divided into more than a dozen sections separated by barbed-wire fences and, like Auschwitz I, was patrolled by SS guards. The camp also included sections for women, men, a family camp for Gypsies deported from Germany, Austria and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, and a family camp for Jewish families deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto. Aushwitz I and Aushwitz II were the main camps that held the prisoners.
Aushwitz III and the Subcamps were mainly for prisoners to work and be put into labor. Auschwitz III, also called Monowitz, was established in October 1942 to assign prisoners to work with synthetic rubber works. The Germans established a factory in which its executives intended to exploit concentration camp labor for their plans to manufacture synthetic rubber and fuels. They invested 1.4 million dollars into the camps. The subcamps were established between 1942-1944 with 39 camps. The prisoners would work for hours either in a factory or outside doing hard labor, food was scarce and usually just consisted of a bowl of soup and some bread which was intentional and would eventually starve the prisoners. Living in Auschwitz was hell for prisoners and between being experimented on or having bad living situations and eventually dying a slow and painful death, Auschwitz was what the Nazi’s used as a genocide of the Jews.
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