Auschwitz I was the original camp. This camp housed prisoners, was the location of medical experiments, and the site of Block 11 (a place of severe torture) and the Black Wall (a place of execution). At the entrance of Auschwitz I stood the infamous sign that stated "Arbeit Macht Frei" ("work makes one free"). Auschwitz I also housed the Nazi staff that ran the entire camp complex.
Dr. Mengele Josef Mengele was born march 6, 1911 into a wealthy Bavarian family with a strict catholic upbringing. He studied philosophy in Munich, where he encountered the racial ideology of Alfred Rosenberg.
Initially assigned as a battalion medical officer at the start of WWII, he transferred to the concentration camp service in early 1943 & was assigned to Auschwitz. There he saw the opportunity to conduct genetic experiment on the Jews there.
End Auschwitz was liberated by the Soviet Union on January 27, 1945. 1.1 million people had died during the 5 years that Auschwitz was operational. There were several different types of people held captive in auschwitz; ex. Jews, poles, Romanians, and soviet soldiers.