Tag #International Day Of Commemoration

What were the primary factors leading to the establishment of Auschwitz, and what immediate consequences resulted from its operation as an extermination camp?

Auschwitz-Birkenau, liberated on January 27, 1945, was the largest Nazi extermination camp, where over one million people, mostly Jews, were murdered. Its establishment in 1940 stemmed from rising arrests and prison overcrowding, evolving into a death camp by 1942 to implement the "Final Solution.