How many people would fit in auschwitz?

There were three main camps of Auschwitz, Auschwitz I, the main camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, the death camp and Auschwitz-Monowitz a forced labour camp. There were also 48 smaller sub camps belonging to the Auschwitz complex. Combined they could hold hundreds of thousands of people. read more

By the early spring of 1943, four huge crematoria became fully operational at Auschwitz II (Birkenau). They housed eight gas chambers and forty-six ovens that could dispose of some 4,400 corpses per day. Trains would arrive at the camp and those most fit—approximately 10-30 percent of the arrivals—would be selected for a work detail. read more