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Auschwitz Birkenau is located in the south of Poland, in the upper part of Silencia. The town is quite isolated and approximately 65 kilometers from the nearest city of Kraków. The largest railway hub in Europe was once located here. It was ideally situated for the mass transportation of people to what was to become the largest killing center ever known. During World War II, most of the occupied countries in Europe deported Jews. But not only Jews were sent to Auschwitz Birkenau. Prisoners of war, political prisoners, a social prisoners which included gypsies, prostitutes. Jehovah's Witnesses and homosexuals were sent here. To their death.
Everyone within the Nazi Party knew how much adult Hitler hated the Jews. His speech in the Reichstag of 1939 predicted the extermination of the European Jews, if they caused the World War. Hitler trust SS reichsfuhrer, Heinrich Himmler, to oversee the final solution to the Jewish question. It was a task that himmler aggressively pursued. The prisoners quarters are well preserved, having been left undisturbed under communist rule, for more than 50 years. The brick barracks housed the women prisoners, and are situated to the right of the uploading run. Built directly onto swampy ground, most of the huts had no solid floor, apart from the compressed earth, which was often tuned into a veritable quagmire. Sleeping on three tier births covered only with rotting straw.
One birth would sleep an average of 8 people. And up to 1000 people would be housed in each hut. Was the buildings used by the prisoners were very basic. There were over 400 buildings at this camp. 300 of which are now ruins, and only the hearth and chimney survive. But there are 98 buildings which are still intact. Philip footage taken in 2007, shows how little the camp has changed. This photograph taken by the SS in 1944 shows the selection process of thousands of Hungarian Jews. Those regarded as being fitful labor were placed in the camp. Those selected for immediate gassing would walk down this road, which led directly into the undressing rooms, and gas chambers of crematory a fall, and 5. Within two hours of arrival. These people were reduced to nothing more than ash. It is the world's largest Jewish graveyard.
A place where the ashes of over one and a half million innocent victims were scattered over the fields thrown into the rivers, or dumped into several small ponds which can be found around the camp. The perimeter fence was electrified barbed wire. And if judged, would deliver a lethal shock. Many of the prisoners once realizing what Lee in weird for them. Committed suicide on the whale. An aerial photograph, taken by the Royal Air force in 1944, clearly shows the buildings of crematoria two. To deer in the ruins of crematoria two, it is still possible to discern the undressing room. The gas chamber is underground to the left. And in the distance on the surface the ruins of the ovens. New evidence estimates that 500,000 people were gasped in crematoria two. Less than 15 meters from the steps down into the undressing room is the perimeter fence.
On the other side of that fence. And freedom. To the wood sorrow can be found growing freely on both sides of the perimeter fence. And the closing months of 1944. With the advance in Russian army, the SS in an attempt to conceal their criminal activities. Dynamite crematory two and three. Premature four had already been partially blue and up by the prisoners, and revolt on the 7th of October 1944. On January 6th, 1945, the SS blew a crematoria 5. And the following deer, Soviet soldiers from the first army of the Ukrainian front. Liberated, Auschwitz birkenau.
In April of 1967, the international monument to the victims of Auschwitz birkenau was unveiled. It stands between the gas chambers of crematoria two and three. Forever, let this place be a cry of despair. And a warning to humanity. Where the Nazis murdered, one and a half million men, women, and children, which were merely Jews, from the various countries. Of Europe.