Adolph Hitler had a vision for Germany -- a vision that included only white, blonde-haired, blue-eyed people. Hitler needed to eliminate all Jews from the conqurered nations of Europe to perfect this. How did he carry this out? It started with hard labor camps and putting the Jewish into the Ghettoes. Hitler even had Jews wear the Star of David to define them as different and isolated. Then death camps began. A death camp is a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed. The renowned death camp Auschwitz was one of the most atrocious killing centers of the Holocaust, as recounted by Elie Wiesel and other survivors.
             In the Holocaust there were many other camps. Among them were Bergen-Belsen, Buchenwald, Dachau, Maidanek, Mauthausen, and Nordhausen. However, the main ones were Auschwitz, Auschwitz II (Birkenau), and Auschwitz III (Buna).
             One of the most well-known and largest German concentration camps was the Auschwitz-Birkenau facility, located in the town of Owiecium in upper Silesia, Poland. Auschwitz was the most extensive of some two-thousand Nazi concentration and forced-labor camps and the largest camp at which Jews were exterminated by means of poison gas. It was here that over 1.25 million people were killed within the confines of Auschwitz, 90% of which were Jews. Construction of the camp began on April 27, 1940 after Heinrich Himmler, head of the S.S.(a branch of Hitler's army) and German police ordered the establishment of a large new concentration camp. This camp became known as the main camp, or Auschwitz I.
             The first laborers forced to work on the construction of the camp were three-hundred Jews from Owiecium and its vicinity. Beginning in June of 1940, the Nazis brought transports of prisoners into the camp. During the first period, most of them were Polish political prisoners. On March 1, 1941 the prison population was 10,900, most of i...