1. Aushuwitz
... wooden side-barracks (Auschwitz). On March 1941, Himmler ordered the construction of Auschwitz II, or Birkenau, which was a larger section of the camp, 1.9 miles from Auschwitz I (Museum 1). Birkenau held up to 100,000 prisoners (Auschwitz) and was known as the most cruel and heartless section of Auschwitz. The ... shower they were forced to take off their clothes in the barracks and run, often in the snow, the entire way to the shower block (Shuter 22). The few prisoners who were able to survive through all the immense hardships presented in Auschwitz were used for slave labor. ... a ...
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