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The camp was run by the [[SS]].  It was the home to the brutal [[Germany|German]] doctor [[Dr. Josef Mengele]]. When the camp first began many Poles were sent there to either work to death, be an experimental subject for [[Dr. Josef Mengele]], or to just rot away. Later in the war the [[Nazi]]s started sending Russians and other people who opposed them in the slightest way.  

The camp was run by the [[SS]].  It was the home to the brutal [[Germany|German]] doctor [[Dr. Josef Mengele]]. When the camp first began many Poles were sent there to either work to death, be an experimental subject for [[Dr. Josef Mengele]], or to just rot away. Later in the war the [[Nazi]]s started sending Russians and other people who opposed them in the slightest way.  

The camp is infamous for its gas chambers, where the [[Nazi]]s used [[Zyklon B]] to exterminate over 75,000 people, and crematoria which were then used to dispose of the bodies. The gas chamber and the crematoria, which were formerly a Polish army bunker, are still standing today.

The camp is infamous for its gas chambers, where the [[Nazi]]s used [[Zyklon B]] as their primary method of execution and crematoria which were then used to dispose of the bodies. The gas chamber and the crematoria, which were formerly a Polish army bunker, are still standing today.

Towards the end of the war the [[Nazi]]s had to cover up all the murders committed there; they evacuated all the men who could walk and forced them into the last defenses of [[Germany]]. But it was not all hidden. 7,500 prisoners were liberated by the 322nd Infantry unit of the [[Red Army]] on January 27, 1945, exposing the brutality of the [[Nazi]] regime. The mass murders committed at Auschwitz represented a scale of horror unprecedented in human history and not seen ever since.

Towards the end of the war the [[Nazi]]s had to cover up all the murders committed there; they evacuated all the men who could walk and forced them into the last defenses of [[Germany]]. But it was not all hidden. 7,500 prisoners were liberated by the 322nd Infantry unit of the [[Red Army]] on January 27, 1945, exposing the brutality of the [[Nazi]] regime. The mass murders committed at Auschwitz represented a scale of horror unprecedented in human history and not seen ever since. In all, between 1.1 and 1.5 million people died in the prison camp.  Ninety percent of them were Jews.  The other ten percent included about 83,000 Poles and 19,000 Roma (Gypsies).<ref>http://academic.eb.com/levels/collegiate/article/11296</ref>

== Links ==

== External links ==

[http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/start/index.php Official Auschwitz Museum]

*[http://www.auschwitz-muzeum.oswiecim.pl/html/eng/start/index.php Official Auschwitz Museum]

 

*[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]

[http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005189 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]

*[http://www.yadvashem.org World Center for Holocaust Research, Education, Documentation and Commemoration], ''alias'' Yad VaShem, outside [[Jerusalem]]

 

[http://www.yadvashem.org/ World Center for Holocaust Research, Education, Documentation and Commemoration], ''alias'' Yad VaShem, outside [[Jerusalem]]

 

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