This Place Has Dark History | Auschwitz Concentration Camp

In this video I am located in a town called Oświęcim, located in southern Poland. This town is 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. In today’s video I take a walk around the museum which was a concentration camp. I look inside the block buildings which once was a place where the prisoners were kept from different backgrounds such as Roma gypsy, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland and other countries but most of the people killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp were Jewish people inside the gas chambers, which the German Nazis used Zyclon B to exterminate them. I also saw inside the museum there are rooms with the victims personal belongings left behind such as their leather boots, shoes, glasses, and empty leather suitcases. Inside one of the rooms was a big pile of human hair from the deceased victims which I was unable to show on camera in a room behind a glass window from the victims that perished in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Those who do no remember the past are condemned to repeat it.Show more

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