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Himmler orders construction of Auschwitz
27th April 1940
SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler orders the construction of a concentration camp in Oswiecim, Poland.
Known as Auschwitz in German, the facility will play a central role in the Nazi plan to exterminate Europe's Jews.
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