5 facts you should know about Auschwitz Terra X

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The Auschwitz extermination camp – the final destination for over a million people. In this video, we have summarized 5 facts that you should know about Auschwitz: Auschwitz has predecessors. Since the beginning of the Third Reich, so-called concentration camps, or KZ for short, have been established all over Germany, in which political opponents are imprisoned. In May 1940, another concentration camp is founded in Auschwitz. The place is located in Upper Silesia, which was annexed by Germany after the victory over Poland. The SS, Adolf Hitler's terror squad, uses a former Polish barracks, which is converted according to a tried and tested model. One year later, in 1941, the leader of the SS, Heinrich Himmler, has another camp built in Auschwitz. It is located three kilometers away from the existing concentration camp, which is now called the main camp, near the village of Brzezinka, which the Germans call Birkenau. The camp is therefore called Auschwitz-Birkenau or Auschwitz 2. An architecture of murder is created here. The SS organized the extermination of people with industrial perfection: the victims were deported to the camp by train. From spring 1944, the railway tracks led right into the camp complex. This meant that the deportees could be received directly at their destination. SS doctors divided the arrivals on the ramp into those who were fit for work and those who were not. The elderly, the sick and children were generally considered unfit for work. After being "sorted out", the victims were sent to shower. The shower heads on the ceiling were dummies. The crucial thing was the barred cages that reached from the floor to a hatch in the ceiling. These were the feed chutes for the poison Zyklon B. The people's death struggle lasted around 30 minutes. Then their bodies were taken from the gas chamber to the ovens where they were burned. Everything was under one roof - systematic extermination. For those who were not "sorted out" on arrival, forced labor began, some of them were sold to the German war industry. The victims are not only murdered and exploited. They are also robbed. Their last belongings are first collected and sorted in huge quantities. They are then sent to Germany by train and sold there. At the beginning of 1945, Germany is on the verge of defeat. On January 27, Soviet soldiers liberate the camp without a fight. They find gruesome evidence of the crime that the perpetrators were unable to remove before they fled. And they come across living witnesses: 6,000 exhausted prisoners that the SS left behind when they fled. The memory of the horror of Auschwitz remains alive in the survivors to this day. This video is a ZDF production. Subscribe? Just click here - / @terraxhistory All films and information about Terra X can be found here - https://terra-x.zdf.de/#xtor=CS3-82 Terra X on Facebook - / zdfterrax Terra X on Instagram - / terrax

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