Before I go on I would like to explain why I classify the main two Crematorium as numbers II and III as I have seen them called Crematorium I and II. Crematorium I is located at the Stamlagger. Therefore its just carrying on the number sequence to Birkenau where Crematorium II, III, IV and V.
Crematorium II and III were mirror image single storey brick-built buildings that contained the changing rooms, gas chambers underground rooms and crematorium ovens and attics above ground. Only ruins remain, the buildings were destroyed by the SS guards early in 1945 to remove evidence of the crimes they had committed at Auschwitz Birkenau.
The second video shows the area of the ruins of crematorium II which is where people sent to the gas chambers were made to undress. In 2009 you can see that the gas chambers located at the back of the ruins were out of sight behind white screens. The third video shows the changing area in crematorium III
The following video looks at the height of the changing room area and the entrance where many tens of thousands of prisoners entered Crematorium III. I believe that the area where the roof used to be directly in front of the entrance is where the prisoner band used to play to put the prisoners behind.
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