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Arbeit Macht Frei - "Work shall set you free". The expression comes from the title of a novel written by the German philologist Lorenz Diefenbach. The Novel story is about gamblers and fraudsters who find the path to virtue through labor. 

Nazi, used the same expression in a few more concentration camps, like Dachau (1933).

Briefly about Auschwitz

Everyone heart about Auschwitz. It is the primary symbol of the Holocaust. The Nazi Germans killed more than 1,300,000 people, mostly Jews. There are undeniable proofs of the Nazi cruel crimes and unimaginable genocide they commit.

It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Its name was changed to Auschwitz. The direct reason for the establishment was the fact that mass arrests of Poles were increasing beyond the capacity of existing prisons.

The first transport of Poles reached KL Auschwitz from Tarnów prison on June 14, 1940. Initially, Auschwitz was to be one more concentration camp of the type that the Nazis had been setting up since the early 1930s.

It functioned in this role throughout its existence, even when, beginning in 1942, it also became the largest of the extermination centers where the final solution to the Jewish question - the Nazi plan to murder European Jews was carried out.

Birkenau was the largest of the more than 40 camps and sub-camps that made up Auschwitz. Construction began in October 1941 and it was supposed to be a camp for 125,000 prisoners of war. The majority of the victims of Auschwitz Concentration Camp died in Birkenau.

Hair of people, shoes, personal belongings, papers, and suitcases with names. The original fences, wooden watchtowers, and railway ramps have been preserved.

Also in the collections of the museum (Auschwitz I), you will see original documents and also the first gas chamber. A visit to the biggest factory of death in whole occupied Europe, Auschwitz II Birkenau is also included.

People deported from their place of living after the German-occupied their country and some of them were first locked into Ghettos for some time while other was deported straight away.

Nazi didn't care if there was children, pregnant woman, or older people. The selection was simple. Do we need people for work and do we have people to do what we need them to do? If someone could do the job, then he could live so far, otherwise, they were sent straight to the gas chambers.

Useful people had bigger chances to survive for a longer time. Some people survived only for a few days or a few hours. Many died on the train because the trip was very hard and there was no food or water in most of the cases.

A few people even had the idea to play the disabled in order to avoid hard labor and they were sent to the gas chambers as well.

Families separated, children stayed alone and were used in doctor's experiments. A special unit, the Sonderkomando, was responsible to empty the gas chambers from the dead bodies and then burn them to ash.

Sonderkomando was the creepiest invention of the Nazi Germans. As soon as they were opening the doors of the gas chambers, the dead bodies were falling in front of them. On the top, there were usually small children. It seems their parents were throwing them up, hoping that they will breathe.

The total extermination and humiliation of the Jewish nation, that was what the Nazi was trying to do with the «Final Solution» because they believed that the Jews was the one to blame for their loss in WWI and the economic crisis that hit Germany after that.

Read also about the city of Auschwitz.

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