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The entrance sign to Auschwitz concentration camp states: Arbeit Macht Frei, Work makes one free. The freedom that is referred to is death. Auschwitz concentration camp was established in 1940 by the SS chief Heinrich Himmler to bring about the "final solution to the Jewish problem." The camp was commanded by Rudolf Hoss and 256,000 other followers of Hitler. Dressed in green army uniforms with embroidered skulls and equipt with machine guns and rifles, these men made the rules and had the unlimited power to kill. Auschwitz was made up of several parts and over all extended more than forty kilometers. The camp was surrounded by thirteen-foot-tall electrically charged barbed wire fences, of miles of canals, and of watchtowers soaring above and on alert all hours (“Auschwitz- the Concentration; Gutman and Berenbaum 14). After the original camp, Auschwitz I, was outgrown, a new, bigger addition named Auschwitz II or Birkenau was added to the camp. Later, Auschwitz III, Buna, along with over forty sub-camps, was established. These camps were strictly labor camps. Within the Auschwitz complex, which quickly gained the reputation for being the largest, worst, and most deadly Nazi camp ever established during World War II, many p