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'''Auschwitz''' is the name of the greatly feared [[German]] [[concentration camp]] that was located in the city of Oswiecim in [[Poland]]. This site is now known for the extermination of over one million European [[Jews]] and [[Poland|Poles]].
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The main camp had three smaller sub camps:
*Auschwitz I- which was the original concentration camp and the site of the deaths of around 70,000 people, mostly Poles and Soviet prisoners of war.
*Auschwitz II (Birkenau)- an extermination camp in which over 1.1 million [[Jews]], [[Poland|Poles]] and [[Gypsies]] were murdered
*Auschwitz III (Monowitz)- work camp.
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|Nazis]] 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.
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.
== Links ==
[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]
[[Category:European History]]
[[category:Holocaust]]