Essay On Auschwitz Concentration Camp

Auschwitz Concentration camp was a network of German Nazi Concentration camps and extermination camps, built and operated by the first Reich in Polish areas by Nazi Germany during World War II. In September 1939, the town of Oswiecim and its surrounding areas in Poland joined to become Auschwitz. The Auschwitz concentration camp was one of the worst holocaust camps ever, where over one million prisoners experienced brutal living conditions, execution or were used for medical experiments. Auschwitz is more than just one place. It’s a small town in now Poland. It also isn’t just one camp, it refers to three separate prison camps. Known as Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II, and Auschwitz III. Auschwitz was built or an altogether different purpose than the gassing of the Jews. Instead Auschwitz evolved under meticulous planning. The first and main camp is Auschwitz I, which opened June 1940. This camp was considered class one concentration camp. At the opening of this camp the first prisoners were mostly non- Jewish. Prisoners first brought to Auschwitz included mostly German prisoners transferred from Sachsenhausen concentration camp in …show more content…
I will be comparing Buchenwald concentration camp with Auschwitz concentration camp. Buchenwald had a main camp and around 100-sub camps. Auschwitz had three separate camps as I explained, Auschwitz I, II, III plus forty other sub-camps. Auschwitz II, aka Birkenau was officially called a death camp, rather Buchenwald was officially just called a concentration camp. And as far as most people know Buchenwald did not have a gas chamber like Auschwitz did and was notorious for. Nor did Buchenwald have a selection process for Jewish prisoners. At Auschwitz there were an estimated 1.1 million who died at the camp 90% of whom were Jewish, At Buchenwald there was an estimated 56,000 deaths. Auschwitz was the most populated and most ‘successful’ camp to Adolf