Most of them worked for the SS, most of them were happy to be there, away from the fighting. Some applied for a transfer, it was mainly those who enjoyed what they did that remained.
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Soldiers who worked at Auschwitz were a part of the Nazi SS organization and were responsible for operating and guarding the concentration and extermination camp. They carried out various tasks including maintaining security, enforcing discipline, and overseeing the mass killing and disposal of prisoners. These soldiers were heavily involved in the systematic genocide of millions of innocent people during the Holocaust.
Around 7,000 SS Soldiers worked at Auschwitz Concentration Camp during the Holocaust.
generally it was the SS more than soldiers who were stationed to Auschwitz, but it would have been whilst it was in operation, between 1940 and 1945.
all the Jews were gased or worked to death
Auschwitz was a cluster of camps. Some were slave labor camps with slaves from many different backgrounds worked, and where many were worked to death. Auschwitz II Birkenau was a death camp, devoted almost entirely to the slaughter of Jews.
At least 7,500 SS Guards worked at Auschwitz and all of the Sub camps during the Holocaust.At least 7,500 SS Guards worked at Auschwitz and all of the Sub camps during the Holocaust.