Auschwitz: History, characteristics, objective, implementation, consequences.
Name: Danna Rocha Date: 20 - 01 - 2020. Auschwitz R udolf Franz Ferdinand Höß, also spelled Hoeß, Höss or Hoess, was a German military, SS officer who was the leader of Auschwitz. The work and extermination camps were created in order to imprison and exterminate Jews, communists, anarchists, socialists, political dissidents, prisoners of war, homosexuals, gypsies, Slavs, Jehovah's Witnesses, common criminals, Spanish republicans, emigrants, people with disabilities etc. Since Dachau became the prototype of the Nazi concentration camps and training center for the members of the SS who would control the rest of the death camps. Since its first commander, Theodor Eicke, created the organizational structure and designed the sadistic operating rules and that it was about exiles who, after leaving Spain in 1939, had been enlisted in the French Army and who at the time of the invasion from France by the Wehrmacht were captured by the Germans. Between 1940 and 1945, some 7,200 ...