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Nazi's Concentration & Extermination Camp: Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial

2,927 views · Published 11 October 2017 · 11:08 · Indexed 30 October 2026

Channel: Seek the World · 2017 · Travel & Events

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All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. 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, which also became the name of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz.

The direct reason for the establishment of the camp was the fact that mass arrests of Poles were increasing beyond the capacity of existing "local" 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 death camps.

Source: http://auschwitz.org/en/history/kl-auschwitz-birkenau/

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