What's Inside Auschwitz?

Oh... you're here early This video presents a highly accurate 3D recreation of Auschwitz, a project that took over three months for us to complete. In this video, we provide a detailed yet respectful look at the dark history of Auschwitz without the use of graphic imagery. Through immersive 3D visuals, we aim to bring a sensitive topic to life in a way that is both informative and accessible, ensuring that the lessons of the past are never forgotten. Auschwitz: A Prisoner's Final 24hrs Alive Thanks to our team: Mirko (animator) Martin (animator) Jamie (animator) Nacho (scriptwriter) Thales (editor) Luciano (sound designer) Raul (voice over) We are LOOKING FOR translators to make this video in every language we can. Please contact us if you're interested in helping either translate the script, do the voiceover, or both: [email protected] --- An educator made the following comment in the video. We think it is important context, so have added it here to address various comments: By @timbrown3683 ‘What about the hospital/maternity ward/ swimming pool/ etc.’? One thing we often forget about Auschwitz, or the Holocaust in general for that matter, is that it was an incremental process in which the violence gradually increased and evolved over time. Auschwitz started out initially as a standard prison/labor camp, and was expanded over time as the War progressed. Initially, the primary prisoners were ‘work shy’ men and political prisoners that were seen to be potential trouble makes for the Nazis. As time went on, the camp expanded to add in more and more prisoners and types of prisoners. For a while, it was primarily a place for Soviet prisoners of war, which Germany didn’t have a vested interest in killing en masse just yet. So you had facilities like the hospital or maternity ward, as ostensibly the point of the camp was not just killing – and this is accurate for the first years of its existence. Like any other prison, you’re going to have certain amenities for the prisoners, and that doesn’t negate the Genocide that occurred. Because the camp wasn’t initially the center of extermination of the Holocaust, it had plenty of facilities that seemed nonsensical by the time it became the center of extermination that it did. Other true ‘death camps’ like Treblinka, Belzec, and Sobibor, did not have these same kinds of facilities at all. Auschwitz served a variety of functions over the course of the war, and often they were at odds with each other – there was a notable disagreement between the Nazi ‘doctors’ and those in charge of the slave labor, as the doctors wanted more ‘human material’ for their medical experiments and those in charge of labor wanted those prisoners to be working. They were called ‘concentration camps’ for a reason- they served to concentrate large portions of populations that the Nazis didn’t want out and about. Hence the maternity ward as well- not only did you have SS men whose families came to the area to live with/near their husbands, but you would have some prisoners who came to the camp pregnant. It seems counterintuitive to provide amenities like a maternity ward to ostensibly care for people that you plan to exterminate, but the plan wasn’t to exterminate every single person who walked through the gates of Birkenau – many were needed for slave labor or medical experiments, and they can’t be useful if they’re too sick. The actual gassing was also supposed to be a secret in the camp, and so out and out death everywhere you looked was not going to be conducive to running the camp smoothly. You can’t do that if you don’t have amenities like this. The ‘swimming pool’ as others have said here was only for SS personnel and their families. The Orchestra, which did exist, was also largely for the benefit of the SS and a way to both taunt the prisoners and occasionally cover up the noises of executions or beatings. All of these things can be real without invalidating the 1.2 million deaths generally attributed to Auschwitz. ‘What about the wooden doors to the gas chambers?’ Wood was part of the doors- they usually had a few layers IIRC, and even had felt on the inside of some of them and rubber siding, to create an airtight seal. Miklos Nyiszli in his memoir about his time as one of Mengele’s ‘assistants’ (he was a Jewish forensic pathologist that was allowed to live because Mengele needed a pathologist for his experiments) goes into better detail about the way the doors were actually constructed, as well as the entire gassing and cremation process, but they were air tight and not just made of wood. What is Atrium? A channel where the most shocking places are explained in 3D. If you enjoy 3D animation, watch Atrium. We are posting our next video in 3 weeks.