Description: ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★KL AUSCHWITZ german concentration camps of WW2 holocaust and final solution ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ The Auschwitz concentration camp was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original concentration camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration/extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps. Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941. Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi's Final Solution to the Jewish Question during the Holocaust. From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed en masse with the pesticide Zyklon B. An estimated 1.3 million people were sent to the camp, of whom at least 1.1 million died. Around 90 percent of those were Jews; approximately one in six Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp. Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Romani and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, 400 Jehovah's Witnesses, and tens of thousands of others of diverse nationalities, including an unknown number of homosexuals. Many of those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, infectious diseases, individual executions, and medical experiments. In the course of the war, the camp was staffed by 7,000 members of the German Schutzstaffel (SS), approximately 12 percent of whom were later convicted of war crimes. Some, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss, were executed. The Allied Powers did not act on early reports of atrocities at the camp, and their failure to bomb the camp or its railways remains controversial. One hundred forty-four prisoners are known to have escaped from Auschwitz successfully, and on 7 October 1944 two Sonderkommando units—prisoners assigned to staff the gas chambers—launched a brief, unsuccessful uprising. As Soviet troops approached Auschwitz in January 1945, most of its population was sent west on a death march. The prisoners remaining at the camp were liberated on 27 January 1945, a day now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day, an album with documentary b/w photographs, some of them - just touching and paralyzing... /#/ THE ITEM DETAILS: AUTHOR: Teresa Cegłowska and others BOOK TITLE: KL Auschwitz BINDING: Hardback PUBLICATION YEAR: 1980 PAGES: 252 LANGUAGE: Polish / English / French / German / Russian SIZE: 9.50 x 8.75 in. [24.00 x 22.50 cm]CONDITION: This hardback printing is in good condition but with visible wears of the cover usage, consistent and clean interior, a great addition to your WW2 collection. What you see is what you'll get incl. a similar bookmark as a bonus to the order. /#/ SHIPMENT DETAILS: Free worldwide shipping, packaging in ecological, very solid recycled cardboard and delivery time about 20-30 days. IMPORTANT INFORMATION: Most of my books are in Polish (unless the auction description says otherwise) but the history enthusiasts buy these books mainly for the unique pictures, plates and graphics that are not found in Western editions of similar books. The text is in Polish but in the times of Google Translator it's not a problem and more fun - for sure. PLEASE TAKE A LOOK AT MY OTHER AUCTIONS OF RARE ITEMS
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Publication Year: 1980
Format: Hardcover
Language: English, French, German, Polish, Russian
Book Title: KL Auschwitz
Book Series: Historical
Author: Teresa Cegłowska
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Genre: History
Topic: Military History, World War II