A little about the basis for a Jew persecuted !

In the 1870-year was an expression, antisemitism, which is a term for Jewish hostility and persecution that have been in 1800 - and 1900-tallet.

Ever since Hitler came to power were living conditions for Jews in Germany, only worse and worse. Hitler believed that Jews were a threat for the race ariske existence. In the beginning there were only wealthy Jews who were exposed to Hitler's terror. Jewish merchants were boycotting and Jews in official positions or in the school was dismissed, without factual basis.

But beyond the 30-century the Jews had to go on their own schools, did not make use of public toilets, did not take the bus, did not go to the movies, and some places were even introduced curfew for Jews, who said that they had to be indoors from the clock 21.
Many Jews reacted strongly to these laws, but they knew the more that it was not the first time Jews were harassed, so they håpt for better times.
But the times were not better. Gradually he introduced a new law that said that Jews could not enter into marriage with people of the ariske race. It is a term for people who were light in skin, had blond hair and blue eyes. There were already many such marriages in Germany, and this new law made life tough for them.
The first prisoners were put in Auschwitz were Poles. First, Hitler wanted to exterminate the Poles. The reason was that when Germany occupied Poland, there were many Poles who made resistance. Thus, the Germans arrested many Poles as revenge.

Holocaust - the ultimate solution

Holocaust, Hitler's final solution was a plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe. The reason was something so absurd that the Germans believed the Jews constituted a threat to the German people. Therefore they found it necessary to eradicate all Jewish men, women and children. Hitler had no basis for his thoughts about the Jews, but he still managed to get a whole nation to believe that this minority could be a threat to the Germans and the ariske race's existence. Those who were not on Hitler's side was still not something to stop it. That means not all, but too many let what happened in concentration camps just happen. It is terrible to think that even if they knew what was going on around in their country was the dangerous few who tried to make resistance. Subsequently, the German people denied that they knew something about what happened.

Nazi final solution was mainly out to kill all of the Jewish race, but they also had intentions to eradicate all mentally and physically disabled people, something he later called "merciful killing unit." Gays were also taken, along with intellectuals and educated people. Hitler saw them as a threat against his dictatorial rule, because the intellectual people would ask his government. But Hitler could not start tilintetgjøringen before Germany was well in the war against the Soviet. It would arouse too much attention. So when Germany and the Soviet war for the full, he could start in the planning of the "merciful clarity killings".

Auschwitz and Birkenau (Auschwitz II)
In 1939, the Polish army fighting the Germans, and during "The Third Reich" as the Germans called them. Then shift the Polish city of Oswiecim name to the German Auschwitz. In Oswiecim was there already a military camp, but it was built on a arbeidsleir for prisoners in 1940. The reason for this was that in SS found that prisons in Silesia was crowded, and that it was necessary to make several mass arrests of Poles. A committee was picked to decide how this should be, and they decided soon for Oswiecim. The reason for this was that the camp site was so far away from the nearest settlement that had a large area to go for if you found out that we needed development. Another important reason was that Oswiecim was an important railway hub. The purpose of the camp was to torture and exterminate the Poles, but was eventually used for, among other things, gays, Jews, gypsies and prisoners of war. Rudolf Höss was the top commander in the camp.

The 14. Gestapo in June 1940 led the first political prisoners to the Auschwitz-camp. There were 728 Poles from the city of Tarnow. The difference between Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II was at Auschwitz I was a arbeidsleir, while Auschwitz II was a pure extermination camp.

Every morning the prisoners were led out of the camp through the gate with the famous words "Arbeit macht frei", that means something like "Work makes freedom."

The "liberation" work for the German military machine was hard, and many people died of exhaustion. Was working for 12 hours. Originally, the camp consisted of 20 buildings, 14 in one floor and 6 on two floors. In 1941-42, we built an extra floor on all the low buildings, with hostages as labor was erected eight new blocks. Now the camp consisted of 28 two storey buildings, plus kitchens and storage buildings.

In 1941 certain Heinrich Himmlers that Auschwitz was to become the center for extermination of Jews. (It was moreover also that he took the final decision of where the camp should be).

The first Krematoriene in Auschwitz I had "only" capacity equal to 350 per day, and soon became too small. In 1942, therefore, the Germans began to build a new camp in town Brzezinka, which quickly was renamed Birkenau. This camp was located 3 km away from Auschwitz. Birkenau was the largest extermination camp, the Nazis made. Over 300 buildings were erected, and at most 100,000 prisoners were there at the same time. And according to the camp commander Rudolf Höss was 70 to 75 percent of all who came to Birkenau, sent directly into gas chambers.

Most of the women lived in brick barracks, and many of them had bare earth floor. Prisoners slept in treetasjes beds with a little straw like wooden building had served as stables for 52 horses. They were built a little about, and up to 1,000 prisoners were stowed together here.

In 1943 the Auschwitz III built. It was not so far away from Auschwitz I and II, at the German factory "IG-Farbenindustrie" Here was the prisoners used as slaves in the factory.

Block 11 - The deadly block
Block 11 was a bit remote and shielded from the rest of the camp. It was in a way a prison in the prison. Prisoners who had done something wrong ended up here. The wrong they had done could be something as simple as taking a small rest in the work or to have gold in your teeth. Laws for what was right and wrong was carefully planned by Hitler and the SS. These laws were probably just an excuse to have killed as many as possible.

In the space between block 10 and block 11 was "The fatal Wall". It was the execution place. Here prisoners were set up in rows and shot. On the space in front of Block 11 SS performed a special punishment. It was to bakbinde prisoners and hang them on a special stake. Where to hang the senene was torn off.

The windows in block 10 were particularly well covered, so that the other prisoners would not know what was happening. Following many prisoners said that they knew what happened anyway.

First floor: The first remained on the right side you came to, there was SS-duty officer had his office. In the next room on both sides, set picks, and waited for his verdict from the Gestapo - the right to periodically came out of Auschwitz and Birkenau. Trials held somewhere in the space above the SS-duty officer's office, and lasted for 2-3 hours. At each meeting could be laying right from 20 to several hundred sentences.

When the prisoners were told their verdict was the lead right out of "The fatal Wall". But the very first they had to put the clothes on their wash room. Often, the shot is already here ...
In the lower space to the left, it is now exhibited photos of paintings that the former prisoner Wladislaw Siwek painted. Where he portrays, among other trials and executions outside the block 11. This is NOK a proof that the hostages knew what was happening at "The fatal Wall". Previously, this room used as a "waiting" for prisoners.

"Waiting" was also the space that now makes the original pisken used at executions, Pål prisoners could be hanged on the gallows and SS carried out the death penalty in one. In the innermost room right now demonstrated the fate of some prisoners who sat in police custody. They were sent to Auschwitz as a "special" prisoners, and would of course have a "special" treatment.

SS found in all possible forms of punishment. Some of the most common was to force people to stand upright for several hours, whipped, hung on a pole or suspended in a cell in block 11. They could also be set to extra heavy physical work or transferred to special sections. It meant that they had to do the hardest work, for example. digging sewage system. To top it all they had reduced the food.

Basement:
In the basement performed Dr. Mengele and Dr. Clauberg the medical experiments on their prisoners. Dr. Clauberg experimented with the sterilization of Jewish women. It was to find a biological way to liquidate the Slav nationalities. He also checked the people can withstand hot water and research on the effects of diseases. Dr. Mengele researched t?t, twins, and gene manipulation. He lubricated the toxic drugs on prisoners, and after skin transplant. Of course, without anesthesia. Hundreds of prisoners died as a result of the experiments. In addition, research on the effectiveness of both fatal methods.

Every time there came a train of new prisoners was Dr. Mengele on the platform and scout for men, women and children that he thought suited to their experiments. Those who were sent into the gas chambers were "lucky" that got away the extremely painful experiments.

In September, 1941, was in the basement conducted an experiment that led to the mass of prisoners. The poison that was used was the B. Here cyclone killed 606 Soviet prisoners of war and 250 of the weakest hostages from the hospital.

In the basement, there were 3 types of cells. One type was where the SS-prisoners who were sentenced to death was set. In 1941, the Polish monk Maximilian Kolbe sat there. He sat there voluntarily in place of another prisoner. The reason why any at all would be there was that a prisoner had managed to escape, and then took the management camp quite natural that some other prisoners were killed as punishment for the one who had escaped.

Another type of cell was a dark room that could be screened off completely, so that the hostages could be killed by slow choking.

The last type of cell that existed in the basement, was ståceller with goals 90x90 cm. There were four prisoners stowed under punishment.