The camps at Auschwitz
There were three separate camps at Auschwitz: Auschwitz I, a concentration camp; Birkenau, a death camp, and Auschwitz III, a labour camp.
Combined, Auschwitz-Birkenau became the largest Nazi death camp in 1942.
Approximately 70 to 75 per cent of prisoners were murdered shortly after arriving at the camp.
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum estimates that among the people sent to Auschwitz there were at least: 1,100,000 Jews, 140,000 Poles, 20,000 gypsies and 10,000 Soviet prisoners of war. Intellectual and resistance prisoners, German criminals, homosexuals and other "anti-social elements" all passed through the camps.
2 Comments
by manuelization
Wednesday, August 17 2011, 12:31PM
“An official figure of Gypsy deaths is 500,000, a more conservative estimate puts the figure at well exceeding 3,500,000. German authorities have toned down the death rate of the Gypsies, in this way they hand out less compensation.”
by croydon, gatwick
Friday, January 29 2010, 2:02PM
“A good lesson to be learned
sadam hussain used mustard
gas on curdish villages, i watched in horror, the teno;clock news report of dead children, and people of all ages
lying in the streets. after the so called iraqi army fired artillary shells full of mustard gas, on unarmed human being's
Thank GOD for the Brish army
and the un for stoping that crap!”