Auschwitz I conclusions

After our guided tour of Auschwitz I several conclusions and observations were made in our short video blog. We made the video while waiting for the small bus to take groups the short 1.5km distance to Auschwitz II or Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Our tour guide in Auschwitz I was a young local Polish woman whose grandfather had worked in the camp as an electrician/maintenance person during the war. The Germans kept him on the same job he had been doing prior to the war when he performed the same role on site when the camp was actually a Polish Military Barracks with troops based there.
We had actually had enough of guided tours and planned to simply enter Auschwitz-Birkenau and do our own exploration in that camp. Having had no idea if this was feasible given the mandatory guided tour requirement in Auschwitz I, we hoped this would be possible in Auschwitz II, the largest mass murder centre ever devised in all of human history.