Auschwitz Remembered

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All over the world, Auschwitz has become a symbol of terror, genocide, and the Holocaust. It was established by Germans in 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, a Polish city that was annexed to the Third Reich by the Nazis. Its name was changed to Auschwitz, which also became the name of Konzentrationslager Auschwitz.

The direct reason for the establishment of the camp was the fact that mass arrests of Poles were increasing beyond the capacity of existing "local" prisons. Initially, Auschwitz was to be one more concentration camp of the type that the Nazis had been setting up since the early 1930s. It functioned in this role throughout its existence, even when, beginning in 1942, it also became the largest of the death camps.
Division of the camp

The first and oldest was the so-called "main camp," later also known as "Auschwitz I" (the number of prisoners fluctuated around 15,000, sometimes rising above 20,000), which was established on the grounds and in the buildings of prewar Polish barracks;

The second part was the Birkenau camp (which held over 90,000 prisoners in 1944), also known as "Auschwitz II" This was the largest part of the Auschwitz complex. The Nazis began building it in 1941 on the site of the village of Brzezinka, three kilometers from Oswiecim. The Polish civilian population wasere evicted and their houses confiscated and demolished. The greater part of the apparatus of mass extermination was built in Birkenau and the majority of the victims were murdered here. I take no credit whatsoever for the content in this posting. It has been copied from a memorial i donate to as much as i can and once more people get the empathy that i obtained for it wish they could help also any way they can. http://en.auschwitz.org.pl/h/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=27&Itemid=1 My mind finds it hard to grasp how a nation could be so brainwashed as the German people were into following the madman Hitler. Even though I do understand how when your taught something by who you consider a leader (so they must know what they are talking about), you have no second thoughts about right or wrong. However no matter how much I research the subject i still fail to understand any foundation why the Jewish population was looked at as a lower class race. I myself am a Catholic and yet am mind boggled as to why ever since the days when Moses led them out of Egypt they have been so persecuted, hated and have to fight so hard to survive. My heart really goes out to them.

they cared not in the least

These are but a few from the archive I have. Unbelievable
stories of how the SS would take infants from mothers and
two of them would literally tear the child in half in front of
the parents.
And no these are not just stories made up to gather sympathy, many well documented along with stories of how most were just taken from the cattle cars straight to the furnace as wailing parents watched disbelieving what was happening. It is the children that haunt and bother me so much. Can you even imagine watching your child being murdered in front of you ?
Well so ends my very first blog. I hope it enlightens if but only a few. For as long as the memory of those that perished lives on and humanity remembers, they did not die in vain.
Thank you for spending time on by blog.