Why was Auschwitz not destroyed by the Nazis to hide evidence, but camps like Treblinka and Westerbork were?
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Auschwitz was not destroyed because the destruction of the all the camps as well as the operation and or continuation of the camps during a world war was not as controlled and planned out with extreme precision as you’d like to think it was. Each camp was its own beast with its own individuals running it, leaving the possibilities for anything to happen . As much as some would like an explanation for why Auschwitz was not destroyed so it can fit nicely in your mind to make you comfortable the truth is, War happened. Bombings of main supply routes. Mass starvation. Chaos ensued. Sometimes there isn’t a rhyme or reason for things. This is the case here.
Who knows. Why did the Nazi’s make human soap out of the victims?
Auschwitz was a work camp. Treblinka was an extermination camp, designed solely to kill large numbers of people efficiently. After some uprisings at extermination camps in 1943, they decided to shut them down and tried to hide all evidence they existed. Auschwitz was still operational at the end of the war, so they had no time to fully cover it up.
A lot of it was. The gas chambers at Auschwitz, for example, are postwar reconstructions, not the original. The Nazis demolished most of the Auschwitz complex, and destroyed all the records they could.
In some cases, Allied forces were approaching so fast that camp guards were unable to destroy all the evidence. Or any of the evidence. Instead, some of the Nazis simply locked the gates and fled.
They knew what would happen to them if they were caught there.
It was, to an extent. The Nazis demolished the gas chambers and crematoria, as well as putting all prisoners on a forced march to camps further from the front.
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