Wednesday, February 18, 2009

The exhibition in Berlin were the original drawings of Auschwitz.

In the German capital for public display issued technical documentation, including original drawings and plans for the construction of Auschwitz death camp, also known as the Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Discovered in 2008 in a Berlin apartment documents relate to the years 1941-1942, when Auschwitz evolved from a concentration camp in the camp of destruction, the magazine Spiegel.
The exhibition was opened by one of the prisoners of Auschwitz, the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland, 86-year-old Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. He called the exhibit "plans for a present hell." Among the drawings, amazing care and detail, also provided technical documentation for the construction of gas chambers and crematoria.
As previously reported publication of The Daily Telegraph, found the drawings show that the decision on the genocide of Jews, it was not Hitler's leadership in 1942, as previously thought, and another in 1941.
Complex concentration, located in southern Poland near the town of Oswiecim, was founded in 1940 on the orders of Heinrich Himmler. Above the entrance to the camp had posted the slogan "Arbeit macht frei" ( "Work exempt"). The complex covers an area of 4675 hectares, which were about 40 camps. It contained at the same time from one hundred and eighty to two hundred and fifty thousand prisoners.
The exact number of dead at Auschwitz-Birkenau can not be established. According to various estimates there have died from a half to four million people. Red Army troops liberated the camp on Jan. 27, 1945. At this time there were about 7.5 thousand surviving prisoners. The rest, or have been destroyed or removed by the fascists in the camps in Germany.
In memory of the victims of the camps in its territory in 1947, was a museum, which is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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