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Zone Of Interest (Auschwitz)
The term Zone of Interest (german: Interessengebiet) was used by the occupying Nazi forces to describe the area around the Auschwitz concentration camp complex reserved for the Schutzstaffel (SS), subject to the administration of the main camp. The zone was created on the land confiscated around the camp, as a zone patrolled by the SS, Gestapo, and local police. History In 1941, camp authorities created the zone in order to: *remove the Polish population from these areas and take over agricultural land from them; *allegedly reeducate prisoners by using their agricultural work; *obtain financial benefits for the SS from the sale of agricultural produce; and *reduce contact between prisoners and local residents. In addition, the zone was to implement a plan to create at least two model training villages in these areas for German farmers. In fiction The term was used by Martin Amis as the title for his novel ''The Zone of Interest'' (2014), centered around a fictionalized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Map Of The KL Auschwitz Interest Zone From February 1941
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to context or scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
