Prisoners
The JewsThe jews were the main victims in Auschwitz. Nearly one million innocent Jews from all over Europe were murdered.
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The RomaRoma are nomadic people who originated from Northern India and travel to Europe. Commonly referred to as Gypsies. They were quite distinguishable from Aryans/Jews. 50% of them were eradicated through extermination camps. The Roma were forced into labour, sent to concentration camps, and deported.
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The Poles & Slovak Prisoners of WarAuschwitz was first built to house Polish political prisoners who were deemed to be a danger to the occupying Nazis in Poland.
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Leaders
Heinrich Himmler
All concentration camps were being run by the Nazi party. The SS chief Heinrich Himmler was incharge of making orders. Heinrich Himmler was a leading member of the Nazi party. He was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany. He was also directly responsible for the Holocaust .
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Dr. Horst Schumann Was experimenting the effects of X-Ray Radiation on human reproductive glands. Many subjects died from complications. The results of the X-ray sterilization experiments were unsatisfactory.
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Doctors At AuschwitzDr.Mengle was known in Auschwitz as the "Angel of Death". He administered painful injects, conducted amputations with no anesthetic and subjected prisoners to freezing conditions and high pressure experiments. Mengele was especially interested in twins. Mengele would take large amounts of blood from one twin and inject it into the other. The twins were given many injections and exposed to various genetic experiments. If one twin died the other was killed by an injection to the heart then both were studied in autopsies. Nearly 3,000 children were selected for Mengele's twin experiments and only about 200 survived.
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Professor Dr. Carl Clauberg experimented with sterilization in the camp. Clauberg developed a method of non-surgical mass sterilization that consisted of introducing into the female reproductive organs a chemical irritant that produced sever inflammation. Within several weeks, the fallopian tubes grew shut and were blocked. Clauberg's experiments killed most of his subjects, and the rest were put to death so that autopsies could be performed.
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