re: This day in history Auschwitz (1940) begins operations.

What video are you referencing here? I have never read any survivor's comments in this regards, and I hve read, literally, hundred's of books on Auschwitz. The orchestra was a group of musicians forced to play when prisoners were being hung as punishment, during selections to calm the victims but according to numerous members of the orchestra, they never played for social reasons. A very few soccer games were played between the SS guards and prisoners, games in which the prisoners dared not win. As for a movie theater, there was one force built by the SS in the special prisoner camp of Therasant ( ? ) as a show case camp for RED CROSS inspectors. In Block 11, the punishment block. prisoners, mostly Jews, were locked in small cells and left to starve to death. There were times when the ovens were over loaded and bodies and, at times, those still alive, were tossed into huge bon fire - like fires. It is an historical fact that 400,000 Hungarian Jews were gassed and burned in the last few mths of the war. I guess these survivors missed all this?? Read The Librarian of Auschwitz for a totally different perspective, a true story told by one survivor. Her observations about Joseph Mengle alone will put the lie to this BS.