Birkenau: tant endins del infern / so deep in Hell

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Fotografia presa amb una càmera Rolleiflex Automat (RF 111A), fabricada el 1938; Ilford HP5+ 400 revelat amb HC110. Aquesta càmera és contemporanea amb Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Una de les zones més vistes i terribles de Birkenau és la plataforma de les vies, la "Judenrampe", on els SS decidien qui vivia i qui moria entre els desgraciats acabats d'arribar en tren al camp. Les conegudes "seleccions". Tots els infants, ancians, malalts, ferits etc andaven directament cap al final de les vies, cap a les càmeres de gas. Els "supervivents" (destinats a treballar fins a morir, sovint en setmanes), eren enviats a la "Centralsauna", l'edifici d'arribades del camp. Poca gent sap que els trens només entraren dins Birkenau a partir de maig de 1944. Anteriorment la via no hi arribava, i els descarregaven uns 2 km enfora, a la "Alte Judenrampe".

Auschwitz. Què més puc dir més enllà d’aquest toponim en alemany d’una vila polonesa. Tots ja sabeu què fou, de 1940 a 1945. Aquí es creà un camp de concentració per la explotació salvatge i mortal dels enemics del III Reich. Però sobretot a partir de 1943 i a la seva extensió (i futur camp independent) de Birkenau: l’extermini dels jueus europeus a nivell industrial.

Birkenau, o Auschwitz II, fou la expansió massiva del camp original (després conegut com Auschwitz I) a partir de 1942, inicialment amb el proposit d'explotar l'influx massiu de presoners de guerra sovietics, però que aviat va canviar cap a camp d'extermini per als jueus europeus, francesos, holandesos, grecs i sobretot, polonesos i hongaresos. Les cambres de gas de Birkenau començaren a funcionar el març de 1942 i no pararen fins octubre de 1944. Finalment, el camp fou alliberat el 21 de gener de 1945. Els nazis hi assassinaren més de 1.300.000 persones, la gran majoria just baixar dels trens, i la gran majoria, jueus...

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Picture taken with a Rolleiflex Automat camera (RF 111A), manufactured in 1938; Ilford HP5+ 400 film developed in HC110. This camera is of the same era than Auschwitz-Birkenau itself.

One of the most visible and terrible areas of Birkenau is the platform between the tracks, the "Judenrampe", where the SS decided who lived and who died among the unfortunates who had just arrived by train in the camp. The well-known "selections". All the children, the elderly, the sick, the wounded, etc. went straight to the end of the tracks, to the gas chambers. The "survivors" (destined to work until death, often within weeks), were sent to the "Centralsauna", the camp's arrivals building. Note that the trains only entered the camp from May 1944 till October, more or less. Before that, there was to track, and since 1942 the trains stoped a couple of km outside, on the "Alte Judenrampe".

Auschwitz. What else can I say beyond this toponym in German of a Polish town. You all know what it was, from 1940 to 1945. Here a concentration camp was created for the savage and deadly exploitation of the enemies of the Third Reich. But especially from 1943 and in its extension (and future independent camp) of Auschwitz II - Birkenau. The extermination of European Jews at an industrial level.

Birkenau, or Auschwitz II, was the massive expansion of the original camp (later known as Auschwitz I) from 1942, initially with the purpose of exploiting the massive influx of Soviet prisoners of war, but which soon changed to a camp of extermination for the European Jews, French, Dutch, Greek and above all, Polish and Hungarian. The Birkenau gas chambers began operating in March 1942 and did not stop until October 1944. Finally, the camp was liberated on January 21, 1945. The Nazis murdered more than 1,300,000 people there, the vast majority just of the trains, and the great majority, Jews...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp#Auschw...

www.auschwitz.org/en/history/kl-auschwitz-birkenau/

70.auschwitz.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar...

auschwitz.camp/en/traces/judenrampe/

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