25 January 1942 | Reichsführer SS Heinrich Himmler send an order to concentration camp inspector Richard Glücks that probably had the greatest impact on the entire future of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Learn more in the thread below. 
"As it is not to be expected that Russian prisoners of war will be obtained in the near future, I order that from among the Jewish men and women emigrating [sic!] from Germany a large number of them be sent to the camps..."
"...Be prepared, therefore, to transfer 100,000 male Jews & up to 50,000 female Jews to concentration camps in the next 4 weeks. In the coming weeks the concentration camps will be entrusted with great economic orders and tasks. SS-Gruppenführer Pohl will give you the details".
This order led to the mass deportation of Jews to the Auschwitz in the next few weeks and the subsequent killing of Jewish children, the sick and the elderly in the gas chambers. It added a new function to the concentration camp - an extermination center.
Our podcast explains why in March 1942 the Auschwitz concentration camp became - at the same time - an extermination center for Jews. anchor.fm/auschwitz-memo…
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