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Changed the wording a bit, Auschwitz was a camp system made up of three camps as opposed to just one concentration camp with three sub camps, which this article almost makes out.
[[Image:Concetration_camp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Camp entrance slogan, "work liberates" or "work makes one free" was placed at the entrances of many Nazi concentration camps.]]
[[Image:Concetration_camp.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Camp entrance slogan, "work liberates" or "work makes one free" was placed at the entrances of many Nazi concentration camps.]]
'''Auschwitz''' is the name of the greatly feared [[German]] [[concentration camp]] that was located outside the city of Oswiecim in [[Poland]]. This site is now known for the extermination of over one million European [[Jews]] and [[Poland|Poles]].
'''Auschwitz''' is the name of the greatly feared [[German]] [[concentration camp]] system that was located outside the city of Oswiecim in [[Poland]]. This site is now known for the extermination of over one million European [[Jews]] and [[Poland|Poles]].
The main camp had three smaller sub camps:
The camp system was made up of three 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 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 II (Birkenau)- The largest camp in the Auschwitz camp system, in which over 1.1 million [[Jews]], [[Poland|Poles]] and [[Gypsies]] were murdered
*Auschwitz III (Monowitz)- work camp.
*Auschwitz III (Monowitz)- work camp.