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Auschwitz, Birkenau This place which is the only camp on the list of Unesco’s is a symbol of terror, massacre, and the Holocaust. During the Second World War Nazis created the camp on the suburbs of the city Oswiecim - Aushwitz in German. On the June 14, 1940 the camp launched to function, the reason for that was the first arrival of Polish political prisoners. With the time it expanded and many, many people were incarcerated here. The fact is that after some time it became the greatest weapon of mass destruction in the history of Humanity. The territories of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau camps are open to visitors. There is access to all barracks at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The latter camp is much bigger and to see everything would last for few hours. It is not a must to take a Guide here, everthing is clear. As a minimum, however, one-and-a-half hours each should be reserved for the grounds and exhibitions of Auschwitz I and for the Birkenau site. The camps differ so it is worth to see them both. Auschwitz I is the place where the 1st camp for man and women was created. Nazis experimented here with Zyklon B to put people to death. They also murdered the first transport of Jews here and executed many prisoners. The camp commandant's office and most of the SS offices were located in the first camp and from here, the camp administration directed the further expansion of the camp complex. In the Birkenau camp, everything happened on a humongous scale. This is where the Nazis erected the machinery of mass extermination where they murdered approximately one million European Jews. What is more Birkenau was the largest concentration camp which had nearly 300 primitive wooden barracks. More than hundred thousand Jews, Poles, Roma prisoners at a time were here. Miles of the barbed wire fences still sorround this place which is full of human ashes.
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