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Birkenau: els pitjors barracons / The worst blocks

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La gran majoria de barracons de birkenau, sobretot al sector B.II i l'inacabat B.III, eren de fusta. Les SS necessitaven construir un inmens nombre de barracons, i aprofitaren un preexistent model de estables militars prefabricats (Pferdestallbaracke). Però en comptes de 48 caballs, uns 500 a 900 presoners malvivien i morien aqui dintre, amb terra de fang, quasi sense finestres ni caleffacció. Quasi cada nit hi havia morts, en especial al hivern.

 

Auschwitz. Què més puc dir més enllà d’aquest toponim en alemany d’una vila polonesa. Tots ja sabeu què fou, de 1940 a 1945. Aquí es creà un camp de concentració per la explotació salvatge i mortal dels enemics del III Reich. Però sobretot a partir de 1943 i a la seva extensió (i futur camp independent) de Birkenau: l’extermini dels jueus europeus a nivell industrial.

 

Birkenau, o Auschwitz II, fou la expansió massiva del camp original (després conegut com Auschwitz I) a partir de 1942, inicialment amb el proposit d'explotar l'influx massiu de presoners de guerra sovietics, però que aviat va canviar cap a camp d'extermini per als jueus europeus, francesos, holandesos, grecs i sobretot, polonesos i hongaresos. Les cambres de gas de Birkenau començaren a funcionar el març de 1942 i no pararen fins octubre de 1944. Finalment, el camp fou alliberat el 21 de gener de 1945. Els nazis hi assassinaren més de 1.300.000 persones, la gran majoria just baixar dels trens, i la gran majoria, jueus...

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#Auschw...

 

www.auschwitz.org/en/history/kl-auschwitz-birkenau/

 

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The vast majority of birkenau barracks, especially in sector B.II and the unfinished B.III, were made of wood. The SS needed to build an immense number of barracks, and they took advantage of a pre-existing model of prefabricated military stables (Pferdestallbaracke). But instead of 48 horses, about 500 prisoners, and up to 900(!) lived and died in here, with mud floors, almost no windows or heating. Almost every night there were some who did not survive, specially in freezing winter.

 

Auschwitz. What else can I say beyond this toponym in German of a Polish town. You all know what it was, from 1940 to 1945. Here a concentration camp was created for the savage and deadly exploitation of the enemies of the Third Reich. But especially from 1943 and in its extension (and future independent camp) of Auschwitz II - Birkenau. The extermination of European Jews at an industrial level.

 

Birkenau, or Auschwitz II, was the massive expansion of the original camp (later known as Auschwitz I) from 1942, initially with the purpose of exploiting the massive influx of Soviet prisoners of war, but which soon changed to a camp of extermination for the European Jews, French, Dutch, Greek and above all, Polish and Hungarian. The Birkenau gas chambers began operating in March 1942 and did not stop until October 1944. Finally, the camp was liberated on January 21, 1945. The Nazis murdered more than 1,300,000 people there, the vast majority just of the trains, and the great majority, Jews...

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#Auschw...

 

www.auschwitz.org/en/history/kl-auschwitz-birkenau/

 

70.auschwitz.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...

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