5/8/2023 0 Comments The Deportation of Jews from the Lodz Ghetto to KL Auschwitz ... by Andrzej Strzelecki![]() ![]() ![]() In its five years of existence, Auschwitz, which in 1943 became an imperium containing no less than 44 sub-camps, had altogether 5 different functions: a concentration camp, a slave labor camp, a transit camp, a POW-camp for Soviet Prisoners, and an extermination camp. Many firms, like IG-Farben, Siemens, Krupp, Volkswagen and others had their branches in the area of Auschwitz, employing thousands of slave-prisoners. Parallel to it, from 1941 Auschwitz also became an industrial center, manufacturing for the military and civilian needs of Germany. Thus Auschwitz-Birkenau became the biggest extermination camp in Europe, working in the patterns of a production line. During 1942 the murder took place in two relativly primitive installations ("The Bunkers"), later, in spring 1943, four modern gas chambers and crematories started to operate. The death installations were moved in the beginning of 1942 to Birkenau, which from that year on was the biggest extermination camp of Nazi Germany. In autumn 1941 the main camp, Stammlager Auschwitz, began to function also as the site where the "Final Solution" – the annihilation of the Jewish People - was implemented. Later it expanded and its first sub camp, Birkenau, was built, as a huge POW camp for Soviet Prisoners of War. Auschwitz was established by the Germans in 1940 as a concentration camp for the local Polish population. ![]()
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