Auschwitz : the Nazi solution / Andrew Rawson.

Includes index.

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Holocaust; Chapter 2: Choosing Auschwitz; Chapter 3: Birkenau Camp; Chapter 4: The Sub-Camps; Chapter 5: Organizing the Camps; Chapter 6: Running the Camps; Chapter 7: The Transports; Chapter 8: The Prisoners; Chapter 9: Life in the Camps; Chapter 10: Escapes, Resistance and Liberation; Chapter 11: Visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau; Index

The camps at Auschwitz-Birkenau were an important part of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question. Over one million people were murdered in its gas chambers and tens of thousands of prisoners were worked to death in the nearby sub-camps. Others were held in the quarantine area before they were deported to work in the Third Reich.

This is the story of the development of Auschwitz from a Polish prison camp into a concentration camp, and a thorough account of the building of Birkenau and the gas chambers, which grew into industrial killing machines. Rawson relates what life was like for.