The goal of creating a camp in Poland was born after the seizure of this country by the Nazi army. Specifically, it occurred shortly after Hitler, obsessed with "Germanizing" the conquered territory, gave the order to confine all Jews in ghettos from which they could not escape. This idea, together with the need to have a concentration camp to subdue and terrorize the local population, was the starting signal for the formation of Auschwitz .
In the crematoria, 10,000 bodies had been burned a day
However, the purpose of this center was not initially to serve as a permanent dungeon for the Polish population. «Initially, Auschwitz had been conceived as a transit prison (...) where prisoners were kept before being sent to another Reich compound; but it only took a few days for it to become clear that it would function as one more place of incarceration", determines the historian Laurence Rees in his book " Auschwitz ".
