"You came here not to a sanatorium, but to a German concentration camp"
Large-scale German repressions against the Polish nation demanded a large terror facility: in all, 400,000 numbers were issued to the inmates, and some 900,00 were murdered without being registered.
They became numbers from 31 to 758.
Their ordeal ultimately killed most of the first arrivals.
Daily Apocalypse. The first weeks in Auschwitz.
The chances of survival of the people who ended up in KL Auschwitz were slim; the camp was built to eliminate the Third Reich's enemies.
Five of the Auschwitz victims
Auschwitz was not an exception - the German terror machine relied on a dense network of such facilities.
The German killing machine