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Auschwitz I
Auschwitz I was constructed on April, 1940 and was the largest Nazi concentration and extermination camp during World War II in southern Poland. It was located on a former military base in a town near Krakow. During the time in which the camp was constructed, near by homes and factories were forcefully evacuated and then were demolished by the Nazis with bulldozers. The first officer in charge of Auschwitz was Rudolf Höss who previously had helped run the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany. Auschwitz I was constructed for three main purposes. It was originally conceived as a concentration camp, only to be used as a detention center for Polish citizens arrested after Germany took over the country in 1939. The camp included anti-Nazi activists, politicians, scientists and many other individuals that the Nazi simply did not like for either race or gender. Upon Hitlers Final Solution of getting rid of all the Jews, it was undeniable that Auschwitz was deemed to hell and was bound to became an ideal death camp. Despite all that, not all those …show more content…
The people who were considered unfit to work, like young children, the elderly, pregnant women and the mentally ill, were immediately ordered to take showers. Unaware the bathhouses to which they went too were death trapped disguised gas chambers full and ready to pump Zyklon-B poison gas. Nonetheless, Auschwitz I also had SS physicians which carried out medical experiments on their prisoners. They conducted crazy experiments on infants, twins, dwarfs, and performed castrations on adults with no anesthesia. The worst and most popular physician was known as SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele. Mengele began his career in Auschwitz II as a medical doctor. Josef Mengele was known by the name of "Angel of Death." He was named that because of the cruel and demented work he experimented on people. (Staff,

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