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Auschwitz-Birkenau 1940-1945 German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp Auschwitz-Birkenau 1940-1945
On 27th January 1945 Soviet troop liberated the largest Nazi death camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Auschwitz II - Birkenau Extermination camp Auschwitz I Base camp Auschwitz III - Monowitz Labour camp
GAS CHAMBERS Crematoria could burn 1.6 milion people per year Crematorium I Red Farmhouse White Farmhouse Crematoria II and III underground Crematoria IV and V overground Crematoria could burn 1.6 milion people per year
Crematory IV-V
Burning corpses
Zyclon B
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS Twins Dwarfism Different coloured eyes Gangrenous disease of the face Dr. Josef Mengele
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS Mass sterilization using x-rays using irritants Horst Schumann Prof. Carl Clauberg using x-rays using irritants
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS Johann Paul Kremer Emil Kaschub Dr. Eduard Wirths Diseases resulting from the effects of starvation on the human organism Emil Kaschub Dr. Eduard Wirths Provoke and analysis symptoms of diseases of German soldiers Pharmacological experiments Agust Hirt Colection of the skeletons
PUNISHMENT AND EXECUTIONS Flogging The post- hanging torture Block 11- regural cells, dark cells, standing cells The penal company Starvation to death Executions shooting hunging Block 11
CHILDREN Jewish Gypsis Polish From Soviet union Newborns Lived in the family camp with Kindergarten Experiment taken on them Polish From Soviet union Newborns Jewish immadietely killed - All killed during camp liquidation below 16 years (after 1944 below 14) immadiately sent to die
In theory for vagrancy and prostitution protective custody order PRISONERS Jews Poles Sinti and Roma (Gypsies) Soviet POWs Yugoslavians, French, Germans, Austrians, Chechs, Byelorussiana Asocial In theory for vagrancy and prostitution Political protective custody order Criminal Homosexual Jehowa’s Witness Pacifistic beliefs
EVACUATION Death Marches
LINKS http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/ http://www.hmd.org.uk/