Summary: In this article, it goes into detail about the history of Auschwitz-Birkenau (the main camp) and the camp during WWII. This death camp Auschwitz (or known as Auschwitz-Birkenau) opened in 1940 and was the largest of all the Nazi concentration camps and death camps. Is located in Southern Poland, originally served as a detention center for political prisoners until Hitler took over the camp and turned it into a Jewish death camp. However, it worked as a network of camps where Jewish people and other enemies of the Nazi state were exterminated. For example, it states “often in gas chambers, or used as slave labor. Some prisoners were also subjected to barbaric medical experiments led by Josef Mengele (1911-79)”. During WWII (1939-1945)
