The tour of the museum included on the unesco world heritage list in 1978 comprises both parts of the former nazi concentration camp auschwitz i and auschwitz ii birkenau and a documentary film presenting the first moments after the camp was liberatedthe auschwitz camp has become a symbol of terror genocide and the holocaust it was established by the nazis in 1940 in the suburbs of the city of auschwitz which was integrated into the third reich the direct reason for the establishment