Teddy's Travelling Blog

 I remember the Auschwitz Museum for the first time when I was about 10. It was a horrible experience; I had nightmares for a long time after. I would never recommend anyone taking there are children. Later I visited Auschwitz a couple of times and yet it was very difficult each time. I can't believe it happened. Or should I say, it was held recently in Europe!
Last year Alex and I went over the Christmas period, was the temperature below 0? C plus it snowed.Start your Auschwitz tour with a guide that tells that it was only a "hospital", people were only accepted if they were too sick to work or to experiment Nazis on you wollte.Der says guide you what inhumane conditions that had to do the prisoners, shows you prisoners belongings,-Tüchern of human hair

We then to Birkenau by bus, was a place where everyone has been "supplied" taken, as you, can see list in the Schindler's enabled (so strong people had to work), where you Lived… and were killed. Worked in factories and plants in industrial Silesia region near elevations, that important potential for the maintenance of the German war in nearby were. If taking (prisoners) to the crowded store was delivered was there was no choice any sent ", have a shower".They lived in stable type wooden barracks, originally built for 52 horses and a total capacity of more than 400 prisoners per Kasernen.In had actually there were about seven people, a bed, insufficient toilets and no heating.The barracks were often wet and lice and rats an enormous problem for the prisoners.

As mentioned, we went there in winter, had hats, gloves, warm jackets and Schuhe.Wir einfrieren.sehr often have very thin no shoes and clothes, destroyed...

The last place you will be taken, on the other side of the Birkenau, a place for destruction is it was partially escape from the Nazis in late 1944, and trying to destroy any evidence for the genocide destroyed.

Brief history
Auschwitz is in the world to a symbol of terror, genocide and the Holocaust geworden.Es founded a town of German, 1940, in the suburbs of Oswiecim, was annexed by the Nazis in the Third Reich. Its name changed to Auschwitz, that was the name of the concentration camps Auschwitz (KZ).
The direct reason for the establishment of the camp was the fact that the mass arrests of Poland capacity of existing "local" prisons increased wurden.Anfangs was Auschwitz be a further concentration camp of the type that had since the early 1930s the Nazis set up.It works in this role during the entire existence, even when it was the largest concentration camp in 1942.

The first and oldest was the so-called "main camp", later known as "Auschwitz 1? (the number of prisoners has fluctuated around 15,000, sometimes rises above 20,000), which was founded on the site and the buildings of the pre-war Polish barracks."
The second part was the camp of Birkenau (over 90,000 prisoners in 1944 place), also known as "Auschwitz 2? that was the Auschwitz complex most."It started the Nazis in 1941 at the village of Brzezinka to build three kilometres from Oswiecim.The civilian population was expelled and confiscated their homes demolished.Most of the apparatus of mass destruction in Birkenau was built, and the majority of victims were murdered.

The German isolated from the outside world all the camps and in warehouses and surrounded contact with the outside world with barbed wire Fechten.Alle verboten.Allerdings was the area of the Commander was managed and of the SS camp garrison an additional area of approximately 40 square kilometres (the so-called "interest" - the interest zone), which was Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz 2 Birkenau camps around the patrolled the reasons that contain eingeschlossen.Sie by barbed wire.

The locals living Poland and Jews in the vicinity of the newly established camp, vertrieben.Etwa thousand their homes were 1940 1941 were abgerissen.Andere buildings were officers and enlisted of the camp SS garrison, assigned, who came sometimes here with their whole Familien.Die sometimes extended pre-war industrial plants in the zone that were taken by German, and in others, place for new installations associated with the Third Reich used the military requirements drippers camp the zone around the camp for excipients camp technical support, workshops, storage, offices, barracks of the SS.