Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz [Auschvits]) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of Auschwitz I (the Stammlager or base camp); Auschwitz II–Birkenau (the Vernichtungslager or extermination camp); Auschwitz III–Monowitz, also known as Buna–Monowitz (a labour camp); and 45 satellite camps.

Quotes

• Auschwitz, the meaning of pain
  The way that I want you to die
  Slow death, immense decay
  Showers that cleanse you of your life
  Forced in like cattle
  You run stripped of your life's worth
  Human mice, for the Angel of Death
  Four hundred thousand more to die.
  • Jeff Hanneman, "Angel of Death", Reign in Blood (1986)

See also

• Gas chamber
• Treblinka extermination camp