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After the defeat with the September Campaign of 1939, when Polish soldiers had experimented with repel the German invasion, the location of Oswiecim as well as the surrounding areas were incorporated inside the Third Reich. At the same time its name was changed to Auschwitz. After 1939, at the SS and Police Headquarters in Wroclaw (Braslau), thinking about establishing a concentration camp had already been proposed. The state justification for this plan was based on the overcrowding from the existing prisons in Silesia, and so on require conducting further waves of mass arrest one of the Polish inhabitants each of Silesia and also the rest of German-occupied Poland.

Several special committees were convened, whose task it absolutely was to think about the most favorable location for this kind of camp. The ultimate choice fell upon the deserted pre-war Polish barracks in Oswiecim. Situated a long way out of the accumulated section of the town, they might quite easily be expanded and isolated from the outside world. Take into consideration not without significance was the convenient position of Oswiecim – an import and railway junction – within the existing communications network.

An order to proceed with promises to found a camp was given in April 1940, and Rudolf Hoss was appointed its first commandant. On June 14, 1940, the Gestapo dispatched the initial political prisoners to KL Auschwitz – 728 Poles from Tarnow. Initially the camping ground comprised 20 buildings – 14 at walk-out and 6 with an upper floor. Throughout the period from 1941 to 1942 an extra story was added to all ground-floor buildings and 8 new blocks were constructed, while using the prisoners because the work force. Altogether the camp ground now contained 28 one-story buildings ( excluding kitchens, storehouses etc. ) The normal number of prisoners fluctuated between 13-16.000, reaching at one stage ( during 1942 ) an increasing total of 20.000 people. They were accommodated inside the blocks, where perhaps the cellares and lofts were utilized for this purpose.

As the amount of inmates increased, the spot covered by the camp also, grew, until it absolutely was transformed into a huge and horrific factory of death. The monstrosity in Oswiecim – KL Auschwitz I – became the parent or "Stammlager" to some whole generation of latest camps. In 1941 the construction of an extra camp, later called Auschwitz II-Birkenau, was commenced within the village of Brzezinka 3 kilometers away and in 1942 the camp ground in Monowice near Oswiecim-KL Auschwitz III-was established around the territory with the German chemical plant IG-Farbenindustrie. Furthermore, through the years 1942-1944, about 40 smaller branches of the Auschwitz complex occurred these fell within the jurisdiction of KL Auschwitz III and were situated mainly around steelworks, mines and factories, where prisoners were exploited as cheap labour.

The camping ground in Oswiecim ( KL Auschwitz I) as well as in Brzezinka (KL Auschwitz II – Birkenau) are maintained as museums ready to accept people. The main constructions and objects in Birkenau are the remnants of four crematoria, gas chambers and cremation pits and pyres, the special unloading platform were the deportees were selected in addition to a pond with human ashes. In Auschwitz this type of construction is the "Death block."

Furthermore both in camps are very well preserved blocks plus a part of prisoners barracks, the main entrance gates for the camps, sentry watch towers and also barbed wire fences. Many of the constructions destroyed from the Nazis were rebuilt from the original elements – as an example the ovens in the crematorium I. Some objects were completely destroyed with the SS obliterating the traces with their crimes. In the cases of special importance the constructions were reproduced through the museum and used in precisely the same area because they were in the existence of the Auschwitz camp. Most importantly fundamental essentials "Death wall" as well as the collective gallows in the role-call ground.

The prison blocks from the camp at Auschwitz contain exhibitions portraying a history of Auschwitz or hearing aid technology torments of the several nations whose citizens were murdered here. Over the main gate at Auschwitz – in which the prisoners passed on a daily basis en route to be effective (returning 12 hours or even more later) there’s a cynical inscription: "Arbeit macht frei" (Work brings freedom). and also on small square through the kitchen the camping ground orchestra would play marsches, mustering the a large number of prisoners so they really could be counted better through the SS.

That’s a short information regarding a camp as well as what you’ll expect whenever you are there.

Salt Mine in Wieliczka is a second part tours a single day.

Wieliczka Salt Mine near Krakow remembers the days in the Dark ages. It one of several world’s oldest salt mine on the planet. This is actually the only mining facility in the world functioning continuously because the Middle Ages to the present, allowing the evolution of mining technology in numerous historical periods. Wieliczka Salt Mine is approximately 300 km of excavation on 9 levels, the initial of which – how much Bono – visits a depth of 64 meters, as the latter lies 327 meters underneath the surface. Total length of sidewalks, connecting about 3000 excavation (sidewalks, ramps, service chambers, lakes, wells, shafts), exceeds 300 km. The tourist route is 3 km, includes 20 chambers at depths from 64 to 135 meters.

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