While Auschwitz-Birkenau was independent, two men controlled it. Similarly, SS Major Richard Baer was the last leader before the camp wasn't independent. Meanwhile, Auschwitz II consisted of ten sections of electrified barbed-wire fences, patrolled by SS guards and dogs (“The Auschwitz concentration camp complex”). In Elie Wiesel’s Night book, a description of Auschwitz-Birkenau was mentioned. “In front of us, those flames. In the air, the smell of burning flesh. It must have been around midnight. We had arrived in Birkenau. The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions. Every few yards, there stood an SS man, his machine gun trained on us. Hand in hand we followed the throng” (Wiesel 28-29). In addition, Elie has arrived in Auschwitz-Birkenau with his family and sees all of the SS guards. As was previously stated, Auschwitz II consisted of different sections. “The camp included sections for women; men; a family camp for Roma (Gypsies) deported from Germany, Austria, and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia; and a family camp for Jewish families deported from the Theresienstadt ghetto” (“The Auschwitz concentration camp complex”). Those sections held the most prisoners out of the three camps (“The Auschwitz concentration camp complex”). Even though gas chambers and crematoria were used to kill those prisoners, Auschwitz-Birkenau stopped using gas chambers in the November of 1944 (“Auschwitz was the largest…