Auschwitz Auschwitz was selected to be the site of the first concentration camp in occupied Poland because of its central location near a major railroad junction and because there was already a military camp there with usable buildings. " The former kilometers from Cracow". (www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Allgem-Infos.html) This location was favorably situated as reguards to transport facilities. This location was also large to the SS. The Auschwitz concentration camp complex was the first in Poland. Auschwitz was the largest out of all the nazi Camps. They choose former Austrian imperial barracks for the site of a concentration camp. This was the concentration camp that