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Auschwitz-concentration camp
Title: Auschwitz-concentration camp
Category: History
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Auschwitz-concentration camp
Auschwitz-concentration camp
Auschwitz, located in Poland, was Nazi Germany's largest and most terrible
concentration camp. It was established by order of Himmler on April 27, 1940.
At first, it was small because it was a work camp for Polish and Soviet
prisoners of war. It became a death camp in 1941. Auschwitz was divided into
three areas: Auschwitz was the camp commander's headquarters and administrative
offices. Auschwitz was called Birkenau and it was the death camp with forty
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…showed last 75 words of 908 total…Internet: Auschwitz Alphabet). Those who escaped wrote descriptions of the
horrors they suffered. Information spread to many countries, yet no countries
seemed to do anything to help the situation. In fact, as the war progressed,
the number of prisoners increased. In total, between 1.5 and 3.5 million Jews
were murdered at Auschwitz between the years 1940 and 1945. In 1946 Poland
founded a mueseum at the site of the Auschwitz concentrarion
camp in remembrance of it’s victims (Microsoft Encarta).
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