Around 1.3 million people were transported to Auschwitz, while around 1.1 of them died there. (“Auschwitz 2”) Auschwitz was sadly one of the most efficient concentration camps, mainly because of the large amount of Jews killed there, it was located in southern Poland, and started off as a detention center for prisoners. It soon evolved into something much worse, a death camp where men, women, and children were all murdered, usually by gas chambers, burning in the crematoria, or simply by overworking and starving. (“Auschwitz 1”) Auschwitz and so many other camps all started off as one idea by one man, Adolf Hitler, whose plan was to exterminate all the Jews and anyone who opposed him, because he believed that the Germans were the master
