KL Auschwitz was primarily built as a place of detention, repression and elimination of Poles who were actively resisting the occupation, might become an obstacle to German plans, were likely to inspire others to disobedience, or were simply deemed unreformable patriots. The camp into which they disappeared would become the place where they were more or less quietly annihilated through labour, conditions, or outright executions. Many perished at the hands of kapos and SS personnel, others faced the mock trial before the Sondergericht (Special Court) that came from nearby Katowice and were shot at Bloc 11 death wall, and most of the others got killed by hunger, conditions, work or general exhaustion. Only a handful survived.