You’ve probably heard of the most known concentration camp case, Adolf Hitler hunting down Polish Jews to send them to internment(known as concentration camps). Prisoners in camps ended up living a painful life until death. The most well known method of death for prisoners in concentration camps was putting them to gas chambers. If you don’t know what are concentration camps, they’re camps that holds political prisoners, people that belonged to a specific race, religion, or ethnic group. The first concentration camp was established in March 20, 1933 in Dachau, Germany. Prisoners were forced to perform labour. After World War 2 started, prisoners were ordered to create products to contribute to the German War. Prisoners were forced to have
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Auschwitz I was the first concentration camp built before Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Auschwitz II-Birkenau was a mixed purpose camp of a concentration and extermination camp. Finally, Auschwitz III-Monowitz was built to manufacture buna (A type of synthetic rubber) that are used in World War 2. Auschwitz concentration camp’s original use was to use it as an army barrack. Later than, SS-Oberführer Arpad Wigand suggested that Auschwitz I could be a place for concentration camps for Polish Jews. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski later said that he needed a place to place prisoners in the Silesia region. Sachsenhausen concentration camp commandant Walter Eisfeld was sent by Richard Glücks (head of concentration camps inspectorate) to inspect the site. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel approved the site in April, 1940. The first prisoners were 30 German criminal prisoners transferred from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss (Manager of the camp) thought that the 30 German Prisoners that will be living are giving them as a picture of how the facility will …show more content…
35,000 people from Auschwitz I had to construct Auschwitz III. Prisoners woke up at 3:00 am in the morning and walked 7 km. By the time they arrived, they were physically tired. 25,000 prisoners died because of disease, excessive amount of workload, and malnutrition. It was the first concentration camp that’s managed financially by an industry.. This site was chosen by a chemical manufacturer IG Farben. IG Farben was a German medical and chemical manufacturer. IG Farben chose Monowitz is that they had a good railway system which can help them get raw materials. It was renamed to IG Auschwitz. Himmler was not happy with the production rate of the labourers. He decided to remove Oświęcim Jews to replace them with skilled labourers. Based on how skilled the workers are, The SS charged IG Farben 3 Reichsmarks for inexperienced workers and 4 Reichsmarks for skilled workers. Camp managers were not happy because they expected the workers to 75% on average but they instead worked 20%-50% because of either disease or malnutrition. Managers threatened workers that if they don’t work hard enough, they will transfer them to Auschwitz Birkenau-II to die in gas chambers. It increased the productivity of workers. Some workers didn’t listened to the managers and they got transferred to Auschwitz Birkenau-II. Auschwitz II was sometimes postponed because of lack of
Auschwitz I was the first concentration camp built before Auschwitz II-Birkenau. Auschwitz II-Birkenau was a mixed purpose camp of a concentration and extermination camp. Finally, Auschwitz III-Monowitz was built to manufacture buna (A type of synthetic rubber) that are used in World War 2. Auschwitz concentration camp’s original use was to use it as an army barrack. Later than, SS-Oberführer Arpad Wigand suggested that Auschwitz I could be a place for concentration camps for Polish Jews. Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski later said that he needed a place to place prisoners in the Silesia region. Sachsenhausen concentration camp commandant Walter Eisfeld was sent by Richard Glücks (head of concentration camps inspectorate) to inspect the site. Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel approved the site in April, 1940. The first prisoners were 30 German criminal prisoners transferred from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss (Manager of the camp) thought that the 30 German Prisoners that will be living are giving them as a picture of how the facility will …show more content…
35,000 people from Auschwitz I had to construct Auschwitz III. Prisoners woke up at 3:00 am in the morning and walked 7 km. By the time they arrived, they were physically tired. 25,000 prisoners died because of disease, excessive amount of workload, and malnutrition. It was the first concentration camp that’s managed financially by an industry.. This site was chosen by a chemical manufacturer IG Farben. IG Farben was a German medical and chemical manufacturer. IG Farben chose Monowitz is that they had a good railway system which can help them get raw materials. It was renamed to IG Auschwitz. Himmler was not happy with the production rate of the labourers. He decided to remove Oświęcim Jews to replace them with skilled labourers. Based on how skilled the workers are, The SS charged IG Farben 3 Reichsmarks for inexperienced workers and 4 Reichsmarks for skilled workers. Camp managers were not happy because they expected the workers to 75% on average but they instead worked 20%-50% because of either disease or malnutrition. Managers threatened workers that if they don’t work hard enough, they will transfer them to Auschwitz Birkenau-II to die in gas chambers. It increased the productivity of workers. Some workers didn’t listened to the managers and they got transferred to Auschwitz Birkenau-II. Auschwitz II was sometimes postponed because of lack of