Why Auschwitz was chosen to became the biggest death factory in the world?
Many reasons – first of all – it had a convenient location near the industrial town with a good communication and transportation network. The place of the camp was relatively close to other parts of Europe – being situated in the Southwestern part of Poland. The original Auschwitz camp was located in deserted pre-war Polish military barracks. It could easily be isolated and camouflaged from the eyes of public opinion in Western Europe or a free world. As you probably know, Eastern Europeans were treated much worse during the war than the Western Europeans. Until the very end of the war there was a huge confusion about Auschwitz because of its multiple function – as the concentration and the labor camp and as the extermination camp. Usually the camps were either used solely for extermination or as the labor or concentration camps. Polish resistance movement and its envoy, Jan Karski, were the first to convey the information about the real function of Auschwitz but this was too troubling
