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I visited Auschwitz concentration camp a year ago. I've always wanted to record it, but because this history is too heavy, I can't write it. A visit to Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland is a must. We arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp on an autumn afternoon, which was the best day since our trip to Central Europe. However, the sunny scenery can't cover up the tragic and heavy history, giving people a cold feeling and unspeakable discomfort. A friend of ours gave up visiting the concentration camp directly for this reason. Auschwitz concentration camp is one of the reform-through-labour camps and extermination camps established during Nazi Germany, and it is known as the "death factory". 1979, UNESCO listed Auschwitz concentration camp as a world cultural heritage. However, this cultural heritage does not show the greatness and Excellence of human beings, but exposes the ugliness and darkness of human nature and witnesses a dark history of human beings, which makes people remember and reflect.

The entrance to Auschwitz concentration camp is extremely simple, with the words "Arbeit macht frei" written on it. This sign is a replica of the concentration camp in Dachau, Germany, and ironically stands on the door of the death factory. There is an old photo on the wooden sign by the door, showing that the Nazis played a symphony to celebrate the people who had just arrived in the concentration camp. As soon as we entered the gate of Auschwitz concentration camp, people strongly felt the contempt and ridicule of a group of demons for life. After entering the gate, pass through the double-layer power grid and then enter the concentration camp. This is the No.1 camp of Auschwitz concentration camp, and there are 28 small red brick buildings on the second floor. Earlier, it was just an abandoned military camp in Poland. 1940 was requisitioned by Germany and changed to a concentration camp. It was a bungalow at first, and then a second floor was built. At first, it was used to hold Soviet prisoners and some political prisoners in Poland, and later it became a magic cave for holding and killing European Jews.

The concentration camp has strict internal barriers and dense surrounding power grids. It is equipped with columns, gallows, poison gas bathroom and cremation furnace. It was the place where Hitler's genocide policy was implemented. 1942 65438+1October 20th, at the Wan Hu conference, Hitler verbally issued the order to exterminate Jews in Europe, which prompted Hitler to do so, because he blamed the Jews for Germany's failure in World War I and its post-war decline. From the establishment of the concentration camp to the liberation of the Soviet Union in 1945, 165438+ 10,000 Jews were killed here, including 200,000 children. Most of the victims were killed by the poisonous gas Zicron B in the gas chamber.

The massacre of Jews first started in Oshto, Ukraine, and then spread to all parts of Europe. Later, Hitler turned his attention to Hungary, the most prosperous Jewish country. The Nazis took the son of Holti Miklos, then the Hungarian Regent, as a hostage and forced Holti Miklos to cooperate with them. In less than two months from1May 1944 to1July 8, 1944, 430,000 Hungarian Jews were sent to Auschwitz concentration camp by train, and some people even died on the train before reaching the concentration camp. Trains often shuttle between Hungary and Auschwitz. Every day, 10000 Jews are transported to concentration camps, and Jews are continuously transported to concentration camps. Jews who arrived in the concentration camp were selected, healthy and sent to work until they died, and the rest, old and young, sick and disabled, were immediately sent to the gas chamber for execution. At the same time, the property of these Jews who lost their freedom and even their lives was looted and sent back to Berlin.

This persecution of Jews began with some sick Jews in Germany, and then began to expel some Jews to Poland in Eastern Europe. The first non-Polish Jews who arrived in Auschwitz were Slovak Jews. They were taken to concentration camps as workers, and the Slovak government even paid the Nazis a huge sum of 500 marks per capita. Many Jews were tricked into getting on the train, so they set out with all their belongings, took care of the old and the young, embarked on the train with a vision of a better life ahead, and finally arrived at a dead factory.

Because there is no food and water on the train, Jews can't stand long-distance travel. As soon as the train stopped, they couldn't wait to get off. There, an SS doctor divided Jews into two categories, one is the old, the children, the women and the weak, and the other is the people who have the ability to work and use value. Old, weak, women and children will be taken directly to the bathroom to take a bath. In fact, they are killed immediately, and those who have the ability to work will be taken to "disinfection" and engaged in heavy physical labor after disinfection. However, the poor living conditions and heavy labor in concentration camps make these people generally only live for a few months.

According to statistics, these imprisoned Jews created wealth worth 65.438+0.25 billion pounds for the Nazi Party in the factory. The wealth gained from Jews flooded Auschwitz, and Nazi Germans in concentration camps also experienced endless corruption. The SS did not let go of the personal belongings of the Jews who were taken to the concentration camp. Even the hair on their heads and the metal of their glasses frames are stored in the warehouse for use. Everything in the warehouse was piled up in different categories, and everyone watching it cried. The glass window of a whole wall in the museum is about 20 meters wide. Behind the window are rooms more than 10 meters deep-there are three or four such rooms, and the things inside are piled up into hills, shoes, suitcases, cosmetic bottles and cans, and even glasses and crutches. The most shocking thing is hair. Some are black, some are gold or red, and there are tons of wool. And only a small part is displayed in the display window.

Useful people face a hell of life and work. The concentration camp museum keeps some Jewish materials, including photos, names, birthdays, specialties, entry dates and death dates. Almost all of them died after a few months. Few people here can live for a year.

The concentration camp is surrounded by a double-layer power grid, which completely eliminates the possibility of prisoners escaping. Moreover, the Germans also gave orders to the Poles around them not to help the fugitives. Offenders will implicate the whole family, so even if they get away with it, it is difficult to survive.

The grey walls of the two buildings are notorious execution platforms, where countless "prisoners" lost their lives. After decades, the blood has dried up and assimilated into the color of bricks. The windows on both sides of the two barracks are either blocked with bricks or covered with boards. 1944, the Germans began to accelerate the persecution of Jews. In the same year, Soviet troops attacked Germany 1 1, and Heinrich ordered to stop persecuting Jews and began to destroy evidence. 1945, 1, the Germans in the concentration camp all retreated, and the Jews in the concentration camp were transferred to other concentration camps. 1.

There is a gallows outside the concentration camp, which was set up after the victory of World War II to punish Nazi criminals who did evil in the concentration camp. 1946 In March, Hess, the commander of Auschwitz concentration camp, was leaked by his son and was arrested by the British army. However, even before he left, such a vicious man still thought that the reason for extinction was right and did not feel any guilt. 1April, 947, was arrested by the British. According to statistics, a total of 8,000 SS officers worked in Auschwitz, and more than 7,000 survived after the war, but less than 800 of them were tried and only a few were punished. However, those who survived the concentration camp can never go back to their former lives, and the experience of the concentration camp has become a nightmare for them all their lives.

Among the tourists who came to Auschwitz concentration camp, the Jews were the most closely organized and the largest number. Children and young Israeli students came from afar in droves, wrapped in Israeli flags, with wreaths, bouquets and candlelight, and listened to the guide telling the stories of their ancestors in front of the ruins. Jews are the least forgetful people, and Auschwitz is probably the place they must go all their lives.