Auschwitz

The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the biggest of its kind was established by the Nazi regime. It included three main camps, all of which deployed incarcerated prisoners at forced labor. One of them also functioned for an extended period as a killing center. The camps were located right at 37 miles west of Krakow, near the prewar German-polish border in upper Silesia; and area that Nazi Germany attacked in 1939 after invading and conquering Poland.
 
The SS authorities established three main camps neat the polish city of Oswiciem; the Auschwitz concentration camp was complex was subordinate to the Inspectorate of concentration camps. Until March 1942 the Inspectorate of concentration. Similar to mast German concentration camps. Auschwitz they where constructed to serve three purposes to incarcerate real and perceive enemies of the Nazi regime and the German occupation authorities in Poland for on indefinite period of time to have available a supply of forced labors for de payment in SS-owned construction-related enterprises and later armaments and other war-related production camps was an agency of the SS main office.
 
From1941, of the SS operations main office from March 1942 until the Inspectorate was subordinate to the SS economic- administautative main office. In November 1943 the SS decreed that Auschwitz-Birkenau and Auschwitz monwitz would become independent concentration camps. The commandment of Auschwitz remands the SS garrison commander if all SS units assigned to Auschwitz and was considered the Senior offices for maintaining prisoner record and managing prisoner labor deployment continued to be located and can truly run from Auschwitz.
 
 
Madison Mulanax

7Th social Studies

Rossville Jr. High

Holocaust Project

Spring 2009

 

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