Train carriage, Auschwitz-Birkenau II. Poland.
On January 20, 1942, in a town near Berlin, the SS, Nazi Party leaders, and German state officials met to coordinate these mass deportations. This was called the Wannsee Conference. The conference planned for the extermination of nearly 11 million Jews within the German borders, but also in surrounding areas, such as Ireland, Sweden, Turkey, and even Great Britain. The mass deportation required the coordination of several German agencies. These included the RSHA, or the Reich Security Main Office, as well as the Main Office of the Order Police, the Ministry of Transportation, and the Foreign Office. The RSHA, regional SS, and police leaders were the agencies directing the deportations. The Order Police, with help from the local collaborators in occupied territories, were responsible for the rounding up of local Jews. In an effort to disguise their true intentions, the Germans renamed the mass transportation's, calling them ''resettlement's'' in the ''East.'' With the implementation of the Final Solution, all resettlement trains ended at killing centres, or death camps, including Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Majdanek, Treblinka II, and most notably, Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau. The Germans used a few different types of rail cars to transport prisoners. When the SS wanted to maintain the image of ''resettlement,'' the third class passenger carriage was used. However, the majority were freight cars and cattle cars that were typically around 26 feet long by 8 feet wide, with a height of 7 feet.
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Location: Auschwitz-Birkenau II, main concentration camp. Ofiar Niemieckiego Faszyzmu 12, 32-600 Brzezinka, Po
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