What type of work did the prisoners of Auschwitz do? Plz dont answer unless you have the website! thx!?… by ? So Long and Goodnig
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Auschwitz was selected to be the site of the first concentration camp in what is now Poland because of its location near a major railroad junction and because there was already a military camp there with usable buildings. The camp had been built originally for migratory farm laborers on their way to seasonal work on large German estates. This farm labor exchange was built in a district of the town of Auschwitz, called Zazole, in 1916. Auschwitz was then in Galicia, a province in the Austro-Hungarian sector of the former country of Poland, which had been divided between the Russians, Austrians and Prussians (Germans) in 1795. At the time that the concentration camp was opened in Auschwitz, this area had been incorporated into the Greater German Reich; it was not part of German-occupied Poland.
Initially a labor camp for Polish political prisoners and German criminals who assisted the Nazis in supervising the prisoners, Auschwitz I did not become a camp for the systematic extermination of the Jews until after the Wannsee conference, on January 20, 1942, in which plans for the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question” were made.
Between 1942 and 1944, there were 40 sub-camps established, under the jurisdiction of Auschwitz III; these camps were located mainly in the vicinity of steelworks, coal mines and factories where the Auschwitz prisoners worked as slave laborers.
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