In 1940 Auschwitz was established as a concentration and it was only later as the Nazi machine became more hideously intent upon destroying entire groups of people that it became specifically extended to become a death camp. The first people to be incarcerated here were Polish often intellectuals and politically influential people other political prisoners, homosexuals, gypsies, Russians POWs and of course Jews, in fact anyone the Nazis decided they didn’t like really.This was a work camp, remember ‘Work makes you free’ and so daily work groups were sent out daily to do the bidding of whichever guard was chosen. The work parties marched past the band playing in lines of five so that they
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