JS-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Christopher Browning, Extermination Camp

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Jewish Studies
• Course: JS-3100
• Professor: Smith Helmut

Document Summary

Partly bc it started later than the others. Partly bc it was a "mixed camp" (a labor camp as well) Auschwitz is at the center of the holocaust. Most coveted job among prisoners: working in canada. Auschwitz 1 was not developed to kill jews. Not intended as a replacement for treblinka or chelmno, etc. yet. See huge piles of shoes and other things. Sign over gate is not here, only 1. Train tracks leading into gates, barbed wire around. Barbed wire is not as high or as layered as auschwitz 1. Ramp is long enough for 50 train cars to park. Within a few hours the trains are turned around. Western allies liberated camps in west germany (americans, brits) Camps in east (center of genocide) liberated by red army. Most in-depth study of batallions was by christopher browning. Convinced people that they were going to showers.