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After 30 June 1943, a camp brothel existed in Auschwitz in "Block 24", and from 15 July 1943, in Buchenwald. The one in Neuengamme was established in early 1944, Dachau's in May 1944, Dora-Mittelbau's in late summer, and Sachsenhausen's on 8 August 1944. [4]
[4] However, while Block 24 really did house a brothel, in reality "it was a brothel for prisoners. Members of the Wehrmacht and SS were not allowed to visit it. The forced prostitutes were mostly German or Polish — none of them were Jewish, neither was any of them called Daniella, as records of the Auschwitz administration show.
Women were at first held in blocks 1–10 of Auschwitz I, [150] but from 6 August 1942, [151] 13,000 inmates were transferred to a new women's camp (Frauenkonzentrationslager or FKL) in Auschwitz II. This consisted at first of 15 brick and 15 wooden barracks in sector ( Bauabschnitt ) BIa; it was later extended into BIb, [ 152 ] and by October ...
The Auschwitz death wall, where inmates were executed, was located near block 11 in Auschwitz I. Since 1960, the so-called "national exhibitions" have been located in Auschwitz I. Most of them were renewed from time to time; for example, those of Belgium, France, Hungary, Netherlands, Slovakia, Czech Republic, and the former Soviet Union.
Beginning in August 1941, selected Soviet prisoners of war were killed within the concentration camps, usually within a few days of their arrival. By mid-1942, when the operation finished, at least 34,000 Soviet prisoners had been murdered. At Auschwitz, the SS used Zyklon B to kill Soviet prisoners in improvised gas chambers. [40] [37]
In a report by a Polish resistance fighter (Witold Pilecki, inmate no. 4859) who volunteered to enter Auschwitz in September 1940, reported genocidal actions from November 1940 onwards and escaped in April 1943 it reads: "In Block 11, Palitzsch, a particularly dedicated torturer, would hunt children. He told girls to run around a closed yard ...
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Most infamous at Auschwitz I, the original camp, was Block 11 and the courtyard between Blocks 10 and 11. [41] High stone walls and a massive wooden gate shielded Nazi brutality from observers. Condemned prisoners were led from Block 11, naked and bound, to the Death Wall at the back of the courtyard. [42]