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Construction on Auschwitz II-Birkenau, the extermination camp, began in October 1941 to ease congestion at the main camp. It was larger than Auschwitz I, and more people passed through its gates than through Auschwitz I. It was designed to hold several categories of prisoners, and to function as an extermination camp in the context of Heinrich Himmler's preparations for the Final Solution of the Jewish Question, the extermination of the Jews.[19] The first gas chamber at Birkenau was "The Little Red House", a brick cottage converted into a gassing facility by tearing out the inside and bricking up the walls. It was operational by March 1942. A second brick cottage, "The Little White House", was similarly converted some weeks later.[20]

The Nazis had committed themselves to the final solution no later than January 20, 1942, the date of the Wannsee Conference. In his Nuremberg testimony on April 15, 1946, Rudolf Höss, the commandant of Auschwitz, testified that Heinrich Himmler personally ordered him to prepare Auschwitz for that purpose:
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Author Jorge Láscar from Australia
Camera location50° 02′ 04.56″ N, 19° 10′ 34.5″ E Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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