Auschwitz: The Death Camp


Throughout the world, Auschwitz was a symbol of death, genocide, and destruction. It was established May 27, 1940, when Heinrich ordered German workers to build it on the outside of Oswiecim. Oswiecim was called Auschwitz by the German people, which gave the name to the infamous death camp. It was later expanded into three camps, Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. The first prisoners held at Auschwitz were Polish politicians. Then came Soviet prisoners of war, gypsies, and deportees from other nations. In 1942, Germans came up with a plan to kill all of the Jewish citizens in Europe.
"I freed Germany from the stupid and degrading fallacies of conscience and morality... We will train young people and the whole world will tremble. I want young people capable of violence, imperious, and cruel." Adolf Hitler
Justice Jackson writes "The Nazis originally planned to starve the Jews to death, allocating 186 calories per capita daily for their sustenance, but had abandoned the plan for easier ways to kill them, After the ensuing epidemics had destroyed not only Jews but threatened to spread to the relatively well-fed German population.
	Links: Bronislaw Honig Crematoriums Bibliography
Joe Gorman Rossville Jr. High - 7th Grade 2002 Holocaust Projects	Links: Bronislaw Honig Crematoriums Bibliography