This Place Has A Dark Past (German Nazi Death Camp) Auschwitz

In this video I am located in a town called Oświęcim which is located in southern Poland. This town is mostly known for the Memorial and Museum of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former WWII concentration and extermination camp with ruins and preserved gas chambers. This is a place with a dark history. During Word War II Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime murdered over 1 million people. Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Germany from 1933 until his death in 1945. Auschwitz concentration camp was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II and the Holocaust. It was the largest of the German Nazi concentration camps and extermination centre's. In the past over 1.1 million men, women and children lost their lives here at the Nazi death camp. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question.
In May 1940, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries, established the camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed for the most trivial reasons. The first gassings—of Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941. Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and from 1942 until late 1944 freight trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its gas chambers. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million were murdered. The number of victims includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were gassed on arrival), 74,000 ethnic Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 other Europeans. Those not gassed were murdered via starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions, or beatings. Others were killed during medical experiments. As the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of the war, the SS sent most of the camp's population west on a death march to camps inside Germany and Austria. Soviet troops entered the camp on 27 January 1945.

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