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Auschwitz-Birkenau

German Nazi Concentration

1940-1945

and Extermination Camp

On 27th January 1945

Soviet troop liberated

the largest Nazi death camp

in Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Auschwitz IBase camp

Auschwitz II - Birkenau

Extermination

Auschwitz III - Monowitz

Labour camp

camp

GAS CHAMBERSRed Farmhouse

Crematorium I

White Farmhouse

Crematoria II and III

Crematoria IV and V

Crematoria could burn1.6 milion people per year

underground

overground

Crematory IV-V

Burning corpses

Zyclon B

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

• Twins• Dwarfism• Different coloured eyes• Gangrenous disease of the faceDr. Josef Mengele

using irritants using x-rays

Prof. Carl Clauberg Horst Schumann

Mass sterilization

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

Diseases resulting from the effects of starvation on the human organism

Pharmacological experiments

Colection of the skeletons

Provoke and analysis symptoms of diseases of German soldiers

MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS

Johann Paul Kremer

Dr. Eduard Wirths Emil Kaschub

Agust Hirt

PUNISHMENT AND EXECUTIONS

• Flogging• The post- hanging torture• Block 11- regural cells, dark cells, standing cells• The penal company• Starvation to death•Executions

shootinghunging

Block 11

CHILDREN

below 16 years (after 1944 below 14) immadiately sent to die

• Jewish• GypsisLived in the family camp with KindergartenExperiment taken on them

• Polish• From Soviet union

Newborns-Jewish immadietely killed- All killed during camp liquidation

PRISONERS

• Jews• Poles• Sinti and Roma (Gypsies)• Soviet POWs• Yugoslavians, French, Germans, Austrians, Chechs, Byelorussiana

Politicalprotective

custody order

CriminalAsocial

In theory for vagrancy

and prostitution

Jehowa’s WitnessPacifistic beliefs

Homosexual

EVACUATION

Death Marches

LINKS

http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/m/

http://www.hmd.org.uk/