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Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp
( ) was a network of German
Nazi concentration camps
and
extermination camps
built and operated by the
Third Reich
in
Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany
during
World War II
. It consisted of
Auschwitz I
(the original camp),
Auschwitz II–Birkenau
(a combination concentration/extermination camp),
Auschwitz III–Monowitz
(a labor camp to staff an
IG Farben
factory), and 45 satellite camps.
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