1.5 million Jews and 4 million people in total were murdered at Auschwitz. Hess was arrested and tried at Nuremberg where he was convicted and summarily hanged in 1947. This is a version of the now famous story of the Polish dancer named Horowitz, who bravely attacks an SS guard named Schillinger while he is trying to force her to undress in the gas chamber, disguised as a shower. She kills Schillinger with his own gun and wounds another guard before she is machine-gunned to her own death. Roza Robota, who is hanged with three other women for her role in the Birkenau Sonderkommando Uprising, just weeks before all three Auschwitz camps are evacuated. A list of some of the first camps and facts concerning them are shown on the following pages. Many of these camps would later become death camps (Dachau, Buchenwald most notably). Buchenwald: Created on July 15, 1937. First Commandant: Karl Koch. 86,000 inmates at its peak. 240,000 people passed through its camps and sub-camps. Separate camps for Poles, children, Gypsies, etc. Used for mass murder of Soviet POW's. Total death estimate: 50,000-60,000. Dachau: Created on February 22, 1933. First commandant: Theodore Eicke. 160,000 inmates at peak. Contained gas chamber and crematoria. Total death estimate: 32,000. Flossenberg: Created on May 3, 1928. First commandant: Jacob Weiseborn. 180,000 inmates at peak. Contained political prisoners, criminals, Soviet POW's, Jews. Mass murder by phenol injections. Industrial enterprises included armaments and aircraft factories. Total death estimate: 10,000. Mauthausen: Created on August 8, 1938. First commandant: Albert Sauer. 120,000 inmates at peak. 200,000 passed through camp in its lifetime. Was officially called a "Strafalger," or punishment camp. Center of Mass Murder operations with gas chambers built in nearby Hartheim castle. Forced labor in SS Stone Works and Messerschmidt aircraft factory. 120,000 people killed. Ravensbruck: Cr...
