Links: WIKIPEDIA: Extermination camp The Holocast explained: Extermination camps Unesco World Heritage List: Auschwitz Birkenau. German Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp (1940-1945) Auschwitz Birkenau [...] find a more effective method than shooting. Rudolf Höss, commander of the Auschwitz concentration camp, later recalled that Adolf Eichmann, the "manager of the genocide", told him in the summer of 1941 [...] on a conveyor belt that ended in the crematoria. Between January 1942 and November 1944, when the camp was at full capacity, approximately 1.1 million people died in Birkenau. The railway connection, which

to independent investigations. The first camp for forced labourers was established in the Soviet Union in 1919, and by 1930 a network of more than 200 labour camps had been set up in the north of the USSR [...] different scale: more than 13 million civilians, prisoners of war from West and East, and concentration camp inmates were forced to work in German industry and agriculture. In August 1944, the civilian labour [...] first they were housed in dance halls or gymnasiums, but increasingly in quickly erected barrack camps. The food was wretched. Western European civilians were allowed to earn extra money for food, while

old mining plants or tunnels, tens of thousands of forced workers and prisoners from concentration camps met their death. In the UK, some airplane plants were moved below ground, too, but because of the