Things i learned

Things i learned from Auschwitz:The Nazis and The Final Solution. Episode 1 1.1 Million people died there, More than the American and British armies lost in all of WWII. The Nazi's called for extermination (Killing all Jews) the final solution. The First Auschwitz was called Stammlager in Western Poland in April 1940. At first it wasn't for Jews but for Polish Soldiers and one named Jerzy Bielecki because the nazis believed he was in the polish resistance and was sentenced to hanging torture. They moved it to where its been since May 8th 1940 in Oświęcim, Poland due to it's natural resources like fresher water. And a man named Himmler wanted it from 10,000 prisoners to 30,000. But there were problems with the local Nazi Leader Heinrich Himmler due to a possible sewage problem but
Himmler got his way. Before it the drawings were hidden and they surfaced from of the original architect. Some of the plans make it more like a little village than a concentration camp. It also had something like an Apartment for Himmler has ann home far from his actual home it was the Reichsfuher plus Furniture. But Hitler had a completely different ideal view of Auschwitz and it dwarfed what Himmler had contemplated. And due to planning to invade the soviet union in 1941 it changed what the function of Auschwitz. Before the end of 1941,Hitler expected his men to be walking on Moscow's Red Square. And Hitler thought it was not that hard to defeat Stalin and his army. Their plan wad Mass Starvation. In three weeks of their plan they captured 3 million Soviet prisoners and within nine months 2 million died and most of them due to starvation. And any Soviet political officers or commissars were to be shot if they were any of the 3 million prisoners. In 1939 Hitler ordered that severely disabled children could be murdered then when the war began it also applied to adults as well. They would be sent to a clinic called Sonnenstien clinic near Dresden, there were six other's like it all through Germany. Around 70,000 disabled were killed by carbon monoxide gas by the summer of 1941, they were simply told they were taking a shower. Himmler was traveling to Minsk on August 15, 1941 he watched a execution of Jews and alleged partisans, after the shooting SS General Erich Von Dem Bach Zelewski said there was a problem with the shooters they were murdering women and children at close range and in cold blood. And Himmler wanted a better way of killing them and that's why Dr.Albert Widmann of the technical institute of the criminal police traveled into eastern Europe due to the research and killing the disabled. While Hoss away from Auschwitz his deputy Karl Fritzsch used Zyklon B gas he used the infamous section to first to first test it, prisoners were crammed together to the point where they couldn't breathe, on a date in late August or early September 1941 Fritzsch ordered be prepared the use of Zyklon B and that the doors and windows to be sealed and the whole block locked down

Stammlager.

Jerzy Bielecki

Heinrich Himmler

Sonnenstien

 

Erich Von Dem Bach Zelewski