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Video camera in hand, he generously allows us to see the previously hidden history for ourselves. The names of the holocaust victims that appear on this list were taken from. Bookended by documentary footage as well as interviews with german teenagers about what they know about the holocaust, bolls intention is to show viewers just how depraved and sadistic life in the camp was. Writer laurence rees and his team interviewed over 100 eyewitnesses, including former nazi perpetrators who speak on the record for the first time. Auschwitzbirkenau ss interest zone ss chief heinrich himmlers plan was to develop auschwitz into both a model city of the german east and a center of manufacturing and agriculture to support the war effort such as the ig farben chemical plant. The first inmates were primarily political prisoners, social democrats, communists, trade unionists, habitual criminals, homosexuals, jehovahs witnesses. Dachau was the first concentration camp established in nazi germany the camp was opened on march 22, 1933. Auschwitzbirkenau became the killing centre where the largest numbers of european jews were killed. In 1944, two more transports of the polish jews at bergenbelsen were sent to auschwitzbirkenau, leaving only about 350 prisoners in the special camp who had papers for palestine, the usa or legitimate documents for south american countries, according to eberhard kolb.
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