Why is the Auschwitz camp the symbol of Nazi barbarism?

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In this new episode of our series “Dis, Uncle Obs”, our journalist François Reynaert explains the horror of Auschwitz, 80 years after the release of this concentration and extermination camp.

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Since 2002, on the initiative of the Council of Europe, every January 27 is the international day dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust, also called the Holocaust, that is to say the methodical assassination of the Jews of Europe by the Nazis. This day was chosen because it corresponds to the discovery, by some soldiers of the avant-garde of the Soviet army, of the gigantic Auschwitz camp, located in the south of occupied Poland, and the release of a few thousand detainees, sick, hungry, who were still there. 58,000 prisoners had been evacuated by the SS a few days earlier, in appalling conditions, to Germany.

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Both concentration camp, where hundreds of thousands of prisoners were slavery to work in the service of the Reich, and extermination center planned to eliminate the victims brought by train the same day of their arrival, Auschwitz became the symbol Nazi barbarism because of the magnitude of the crimes committed to it: 1.1 million people, men, women, old men, children, were murdered there. Nearly a million of them were Jewish. However, it is only one of the camps set up by the Nazi totalitarian regime.

In the video to watch at the top of the articlerecorded by Mahaut Landaz and mounted by Charlotte Maury, François Reynaert, alias uncle obs, takes stock of this monstrous episode of the 20th century.