However, the number of arrests of Jews carried out by the Nazi army did not stop increasing, so that, just a year later (in 1941), the leader of the SS Heinrich Himmler raised with Hoess the need to create a new concentration camp in which to place the new prisoners. In this way, the construction of Auschwitz-Birkenau began , a center located three kilometers from the main camp.
This place, the best known today, is where the Germans began what they called the "final solution", the indiscriminate murder of Jewish men, women and children with the sole purpose of eliminating this race from the face of the earth. Earth. From that moment it was when the authentic hell of Auschwitz began .
After the approval of the "final solution" everything went black for the thousands of people locked up in the concentration camp. In fact, in Auschwitz no less than 100,000 prisoners lived in subhuman conditions (about 744 per barracks, when the normal was a quarter of this amount).
