In the west of Poland, the Nazi built many camps where prisoners were hold. The Nazi forces the people who lived in the area to moved and took their land to make room for camp’s settle. They also forced these people to work in the camps and sent good number of people to the force labor camp. The order to get rid of the Jews, Hitler army rounded up all the Jews and sends them to camps.

The three main kinds of camps were concentration camps, force labor camps and death camps. The concentration camps were setup because they need a place to put the people who they arrested because normal jails was too small so

The intention was not only get rid of the Jews, the Nazi wanted to make money from their murder as well. Plans were drawn up to make sure this would happen. The extermination machinery was made to pay for itself. For example, the railways billed Eichmann’s department for talking Jews to the camps, and the bill was paid from stolen Jewish property. Also they took watches, pens and wallets in good condition were sold or given as a gifts to wounded soldiers. Woman’s hair were collected, cleaned and woven into glove and sock liners for submarine crews. Clothes in the good condition were sold at the “reasonable price’, to relief organization inside and outside the country. But the clothes made some problem because of the blood spots so they had to reduce the price down. The Nazi were officially instructed to call Jewish “Goods stolen concealed, and hoarded by Jews.” The material which taken from Operation Reinhard alone was 180 million reichmarks and it was about $72 milli!

In October 1943, 667 prisoners were escape under the most difficult conditions but 270 were caught not far away for the camp and after that ,they got killed. On April, 1944, two young Jewish prisoners were escape from the camp and they made it without get caught by the Nazi. (Gutman)

In March 1941, Himmler who was the head of the SS and German police ordered to a second section of the camp to be built, which was much larger than the first one, and were located 1.9 miles from the original camp. It was called “Auschwitz II- Birkenau, built on farmland surrounded by beautiful birch trees. Birkenau was divided into nine subunits, each isolated form others by electrically charged barbed-wire fences” (Berenbaum 134). In the same year, “intensive work on the construction of barracks and other camp installation started in Auschwitz II” (Gutman). “In the gas chamber of Ausch

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